Fabiano Magno, a 63-year-old from Rocca di Neto accused of manslaughter for the death of Giuseppe Macrì, was sentenced to 1 year and 4 months in prison (with suspended sentence). The 50-year-old antenna technician who died on 3 September 2019 at the “Pugliese” hospital in Catanzaro after falling from the 3 meter high roof of a building in Strongoli Marina, owned by Magno, where on 19 August six years ago he was repairing a TV antenna. This is what the judge of the Court of Crotone, Giuseppe Collazzo, decided. Which, at the same time, established for Magno the obligation to compensate the civil parties, the victim’s family members, for the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages suffered which will have to be established in civil court. Instead, the other accused was acquitted as she died during the trial.
As the Crotone Prosecutor’s Office reconstructed, Magno would have violated the regulations on safety in the workplace, since he would have used “a company not registered with the Chamber of Commerce and therefore not in possession of the technical-professional requirements”.
Furthermore, according to the investigators, the man did not prevent Macrì from “using a non-compliant ladder” since it was 3.32 meters long (“only 12 centimeters more than the height of the attic”), as well as being “without” devices and “non-slip” supports. The civil parties were assisted by the lawyers Pietro Pitari, Giancarlo Pitari and Giacomo Iemma.