Sale of the former Ilva at risk after the kidnapping, the words of Minister Urso

The former Ilva of Taranto risks off, as happened 35 years ago at the Bagnoli plant. Is the Business Minister Adolfo Urso to launch the alarm on the relaunch of the steel complex Greater in Europe, after the seizure of South Tyrolean 1 by the Taranto prosecutor’s office for a fire that broke out in an area of ​​the plant of the steel mills of Italy.

The accident did not cause injuries, but the danger of the episode and the black smoke column pushed the prosecutors to open an investigation, which risks compromising the tiring negotiation for the transfer to the Azero group Baku Steel.

The warning of Urso

On the sidelines of the Mimit event in Taranto, Minister Urso drew attention to the two dangers that the former Ilva runs with the opening of the investigation, the layoff For workers and the interruption of negotiations for sale:

If the kidnapping of Sluttoporno will also provide for use inhibition, we will necessarily have to expect a strong number of workers in layoffs and a significant reduction in production. But if the provision also inhibits the maintenance of the plants that must be carried out in the next few hours, by compromising forever the restoration of flooding, you can imagine what the consequences can be.

He then sentenced, remembering a famous steel plant on the gates of Naples closed in 1990:

It is clear that if another Bagnoli is created here, it will end as a Bagnoli.

The fire at the above

The evidentiary seizure without the faculty of Use of Alongoforno 1 was ordered by the Taranto prosecutor, after the fire broke out on Wednesday 7 May, for the probable explosion of a tube, with consequent emissions of uncontrolled gases and the structural failure of a part of the system, which, according to the reconstruction of the magistrates, should have been “complete with a complete replacement” between 2012 and 2015.

The investigation signed by the prosecutor Francesco Ciardo, with the hypotheses of crime of omission malicious caution in the workplace and dangerous jet of things, sees how Three managers investigated of steel mills of Italy, the general manager of the company, Maurizio Saitta, the director of the Taranto plant, Benedetto Valli, and the director of the Altaporni area, Arcangelo De Biasi.

In the eight pages of the seizure validation measure, an omissive behavior of the company is assumed, which would not be able to identify the causes of an episode described as “relevant accident” and which, support the prosecutors, “it could happen again“. Reason why the system was blocked.

Approximately 70 workers of the Speakers have been temporarily relocated to training, but the unions fear an increase in the number of additions speakers and ask for a permanent table at Palazzo Chigi.

The risks of the former Ilva

Further problems to be added to a very complex picture on the former Ilva, in extraordinary administration. The whole hot area of ​​the former Ilva (Cokeries, Altiforni, steel mills etc.) is already under seizurebut with the faculty of use, as part of the “Educational Environment” process, for the crime of environmental disaster contested to the old Riva management, renewed by the investigating judge of Potenza after the transfer from the Taranto Assize Court of Appeal to that of Potenza.

The only active working altitude of the plant remains the number 4 and the repercussions on the productive, financial and employment level are inevitable, for a system that, as mentioned by RepublicTo date he loses about one million euros per day.

The new stop at Fe 1, restarted by only one year after the maintenance work, endanger the tractive Handed with the Azer’s consortium led by Baku Steel Company and Azerbaijan Investment Company, which the company’s commissioners and the minister aimed to close by the summer.

The same owner of Mimit underlined it:

I’m afraid that the latest news do not encourage new investors in what is a difficult path for everyone, in which I hope that the institutions participate in a proactive way, to prevent international investors who had shown interest in acquiring the plants can be discouraged to do it.