sentence on appeal for the entrepreneur Loris Tramontin

TRIESTE – The Court of Appeal of Trieste has confirmed the conviction of the entrepreneur Loris Tramontinlegal representative of Azalea Promotion srl, accused by the Trieste Prosecutor’s Office of negligent disaster, manslaughter and negligent injuryfor the collapse of Jovanotti’s stage in which, on 12 December 2011, Francesco Pinna died, aged 19 while working on its installation. The “Messeggero Veneto” reports it.

The sentence confirms the first instance sentence of May 2019, inflicted by the preliminary hearing judge of the Trieste court, reducing the sentence from 1 year and 10 months to 1 year and 3 months, suspended on probation, minimally due to the intervening statute of limitations of a contravention. In November 2021 the Court of Appeal of Trieste acquitted Tramontin but then in October the Court of Cassation annulled that sentence with postponement. The first appeal panel had attributed the causes of the collapse to a calculation error by the engineer in charge of the static verification of the scaffolding. The relative summary trial against the latter before the preliminary hearing judge ended with a sentence of 3 years in prison (redetermined on appeal as 2 years). For Tramontin, however, acquittal was triggered “for not having committed the crime”, contested by the General Prosecutor’s Office and by the civil party, convinced that a coordinator, if he had been appointed, would have perceived the danger, given that the collapse had been preceded by warnings. For Tramontin’s defender, Riccardo Cattarini, the story is “quite surprising, given the fluctuating trend of decisions”. The comment of the lawyer Caterina Belletti, who assists the company, is similar. The panel provided for compensation for damages to the worker injured in the accident and who became a civil party in the proceedings, assisted by the lawyer Rino Battocletti. The civil judge will establish the amount.

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