Girolamo Archinà, the Riva’s “long arm” in the management of Ilva in Taranto, has died. He was sentenced to 21 years in the maxi-trial

He was responsible for institutional relations at Ilva in Taranto, but for the investigators he was more concretely the “long arm” in the management of the steelworks, the man who forged relationships inside and outside the plant, acting as a shield for production and profits. millionaires, to the detriment of the environment. Last night Girolamo Archinà, involved in the Ambiente Svenduto per trial […]

He was responsible for institutional relations of theIlva of Tarantobut for the investigators it was more concretely there “long arm” in the management of the steel mill, the man who weaved i relationships inside and outside the plant, shielding production and millionaire profits, to the detriment of the environment. Last night Girolamo Archinàinvolved in the process Sold Out Environment for the alleged environmental disaster caused by Ilva dei Riva, is died at 78 years old. In the first instance, in May 2021, he had been condemned to 21 years and 6 months of imprisonment by the Court of Assizes of Taranto. He passed away in his home in the Ionian capital, after a long illness, a few days after the start of theappeal of the maxi-trial.

According to what was reconstructed during the first degree, Archinà was the deus ex machina of the management of the plant and, according to the investigators, ended up bribing the prosecutor’s consultant Lorenzo Liberticalled to write a expertise on factory emissions. In the 2010 Archinà was filmed in a motorway service station on Bari-Taranto as he held out a wad of 10 thousand euros to Liberti so that the consultancy was as least harsh as possible towards Ilva. An interception with the then president of the Puglia region also ended up in the investigation papers Nichi Vendolathen sentenced to 3 years and 6 months.

In the reasons for the sentence for 26 defendants, including Archinà, the Taranto judges wrote that “Ilvto ‘pilot’ the controlswhich Ilva supplied incorrect or false datawhich Ilva made sure of influence the control bodies – already on their behalf without means and resources -, which Ilva proceeded with corruption of technical consultants of the prosecutor, who Ilva demoted, fired, threatened workers willing to ‘talk’ by revealing the actual working conditions and management methods of the plants”. There “disastrous” managementwe read in the sentence, has “caused a very serious danger for public health and safety”.

The “damage to life and physical integrity”, wrote the Court of Assizes presided over by the judge Stefania D’Errico“in many cases they have materialized: give it manslaughterto internal and external mortality for tumorsIn presence of dioxin in breast milk. Management methods that have gone far beyond the merely industrial ones, involving all the companies at various levels authoritylocal and otherwise, invested with authorizing and/or control powers over the establishment itself”.