The family members of the two workers who died in 2018 during the construction works of the new Crotone promenade will be compensated with 2.5 million euros. The third victim, however, had been compensated previously. This was ordered by the judge of the Civil Court of Crotone, Mauro Giuseppe Cilardi, who has The Municipality of Crotone (client of the works), Crotonscavi (Contractor Company), the owner of the works Gennaro Cosentino, the security coordinator Sergio Dinale and the head of the headquarters Giuseppe Spina.
The compensation request had been made by the family members of Giuseppe Greco51 years old, e Mario De Meco56 years old, both from Isola Capo Rizzuto, employees of the Crotonascavi company, who On the morning of April 5, 2018 they were crushed, together with their Romanian colleague Chirriac Dragos Petru, 35 years old, by the collapse of an old wall, urged by the vehicles maneuvered by some workers of the company that had recently contracted the works for the construction of the new stretch of promenade.
Chirriac Dragos Petru and Giuseppe Greco died instantly, Mario De Meco’s heart ceased to beat 35 days later at the hospital in Catanzaro where he had been transported immediately after the accident. The judge of the Civil Court did not notice any compensation liability against Massimo Villirillo, manager of Crotonscavi, and Giuseppe Germinara, manager of the technical office of the Municipality. For the first, the proof that the formal qualification of the person in charge nor was it not emerged that of the manager, while for Germinara it was reiterated that at the time of the approval of the PSC, the qualification of RUP does not cover. According to the judge, the obligations of control and verification of security “were not concretely due on its part”. The civil sentence follows the criminal sentence with which, in 2023, the Court of Crotone, sentenced Gennaro Cosentino and Sergio Dinale to four years of imprisonment each, Giuseppe Spina three years of imprisonment; Instead, Massimo Villirillo and Giuseppe Germinara acquitted for not having committed the fact. (Agi)