While institutions are passing the buck, our colleagues are leaving quietly one by one. So the Isochimica workers' committee - the factory of poisons in Pianodardine, Avellino, where railway carriages were scoibentated - announces another victim of asbestos. Antonio Petrozziello, 78, from Contrada, died from a tumor-related disease due to prolonged exposure to asbestos fibers. It's the thirty-ninth victim of a silent massacre, which continues inexorably among those who worked for the late Elio Graziano, former Avellino football club patron, and key entrepreneur in the scandal dubbed "Golden Sheets" that characterized state railway contracts in the 1980s. Antonio Petrozziello, who was among the civil parties in the appeal process against Isochimica, was hired as a young man in the Avellino factory, where asbestos was worked on, removing it "by hand" from railway carriages, without any precautions or measures to protect workers' health. It's an endless massacre, we're having one or two funerals a month - Sessa from the Isochimica workers' committee emphasizes - so it can happen to us tomorrow morning too. We continue to lose our colleagues. Antonio was an extraordinary person, humble and kind. It's not possible. We filed the first complaints in 1985 - Sessa accuses - in 2026 we're still in Italian courts seeking justice. We're all indignant.
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Avellino, asbestos kills another worker: "State massacre but no one pays"
Another victim of asbestos in Avellino: Antonio Petrozziello, 78, died from a tumor-related disease due to prolonged exposure to asbestos fibers.
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