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November 21, 2014

Italy tosses case where 3,000 died after asbestos contamination

ROME (AP) — Premier Matteo Renzi added his voice to a chorus of outrage across Italy on Thursday after the country's highest court threw out a conviction against a Swiss businessman for some 3,000 asbestos-related deaths blamed on contamination from a construction company.

The Court of Cassation ruled late Wednesday that the statute of limitations had expired in the environmental negligence case against Stephan Schmidheiny, a former executive and key shareholder in the Swiss construction firm Eternit.


 
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