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May. 22nd, 2013 11:05 am
luttwak, civil actions, traials.
In the last issues, Italian weekly magazine "Panorama" interviewed the U.S. Politologist Edward Luttwack about the reasons our Justice is labeled as "third/second world" and the repercussions on the economic level on a global scale for the Country.
According to "uttwack, 70, one of the reasons foreigns investors and industries don't choose Italy any longer, is what he defines as the "judicial Imperialism", where with sentence after sentence, "ecomic activities and accidents are criminalised" whereas they should fall under the category of civil actions/lawsuits. Luttwack uses, as example, the Thyssen Krupp case and the Eternit one, saying that the consequences of use of eternit could be seen in over 40 different countries all over the world, but only in Italy the two (foreign) owners were condamned to 16 years of jail for disaster, whereas the same facts in other countries had been "translated in civil actions, who brought to billionaires refounds to victims or their families, untill in same cases even the bankrupt of said enterprises. But no penal sentence".
Luttwack, though, forgets that the reasons these enterprises should, and have been, persecuted also on a penal level is the fact that they knew what they were doing. We aren't talking about lack of reserch or random accidents. We talk about the fact that information and research about the consequences of use of certain materials have been hidden, and that, as the -talian branch of (hyssen was going to get closed, they saw no reason in investing in safety. The fact that these enterprises, and many others, have been penally persecuted is that, differently from other countries, is due to the fact that our politics is founded by public money, and corporations and lobbies, not giving money, don't have voice in any matter, and are rightfully persecuted when it's the case.
According to "uttwack, 70, one of the reasons foreigns investors and industries don't choose Italy any longer, is what he defines as the "judicial Imperialism", where with sentence after sentence, "ecomic activities and accidents are criminalised" whereas they should fall under the category of civil actions/lawsuits. Luttwack uses, as example, the Thyssen Krupp case and the Eternit one, saying that the consequences of use of eternit could be seen in over 40 different countries all over the world, but only in Italy the two (foreign) owners were condamned to 16 years of jail for disaster, whereas the same facts in other countries had been "translated in civil actions, who brought to billionaires refounds to victims or their families, untill in same cases even the bankrupt of said enterprises. But no penal sentence".
Luttwack, though, forgets that the reasons these enterprises should, and have been, persecuted also on a penal level is the fact that they knew what they were doing. We aren't talking about lack of reserch or random accidents. We talk about the fact that information and research about the consequences of use of certain materials have been hidden, and that, as the -talian branch of (hyssen was going to get closed, they saw no reason in investing in safety. The fact that these enterprises, and many others, have been penally persecuted is that, differently from other countries, is due to the fact that our politics is founded by public money, and corporations and lobbies, not giving money, don't have voice in any matter, and are rightfully persecuted when it's the case.
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