«He suffered – says Cristina – from a neuromuscular disease and a skin disease, namely hidradenitis suppurativa». «Sometimes – she continues – she used vowels in the messages because she had difficulty writing. Pathologies that caused him problems even standing. I don’t understand how such a person, with those difficulties, had to go to work.” «The last time I heard from him – says Cristina – was the morning of the accident. She had sent me a message. She was a generous person, who never complained about anything and, despite everything, would never have left her Willy alone.”
Already, Willy is Matteo’s dog that Cristina – within twenty-four hours – managed to pre-foster to a boy from Bergamo. But, in the last few hours, a woman from Brescia also offered to adopt him.
Meanwhile, the Uil Brescia coordinator Mario Bailo intervened again on the death of Matteo Cornacchia. «As soon as I heard of the death I went to the place – says the trade unionist – and for the first time my colleagues spoke. Usually, when faced with situations like this, they don’t say anything. We are waiting for the judiciary to make all the findings. From what I learned from colleagues it seems that the worker, one of our members, also had almost 80% disabilities. I wonder how it is possible that a worker with such a disability could work alone under an overhead crane. There are major safety problems in this company where other incidents have already occurred. It is also due to lack of maintenance, as I am told, as well as the fact that workers have to work alone under the overhead cranes.”
«We are faced with an increasingly dramatic and uncontrolled situation – continues the coordinator of Uil Brescia – and when we were to ascertain that all this is true, I ask ministers Nordio and Calderone if they are able to tell the family members that this was not a murder! Companies of this type must no longer have the right to operate on the market because they do not provide workers with a living, but make them die by sending them to the massacre.” While Francesco Bertoli, general secretary of the CGIL Brescia, highlighted that «there is a safety chain already defined by law, therefore it is only necessary to respect the rules. Without forgetting the importance of training workers.”
