The investigating judge of the Court of Sassari, Giuseppe Grotteria, has ordered the compulsory indictment of Fabiano Mario Saba, a 50-year-old worker accused of manslaughter for the death of his colleague Antonio Masia , found lifeless on 25 July 2022 inside the disposal plant waste from Gesam, in Truncu Reale, near Sassari.
The judge rejected the request to dismiss Saba, presented by prosecutor Maria Paola Asara, instead accepting it for another worker under investigation, Luri Arben. Masia's family, represented by lawyers Daniele Alicicco and Francesca Fiori, opposed the dismissal motion. The same judge granted the deputy prosecutor six months of further investigations concerning the Gesam manager, Innocenzo Mario Giannasi, and two new suspects, namely the president and legal representative of the company, Antonio Cesaraccio, and the corporate consultant Michela Paola Piera Coppola.
For all three the alleged crime is manslaughter for failing to implement safety measures. Now the prosecutor will have to formulate the charge against Fabiano Mario Saba, defended by the lawyer Pierfrancesco Cherchi, and the preliminary hearing judge will then decree the indictment.
Antonio Masia was found dead in the Gesam warehouse, in a hidden spot, on the evening of July 25, 2022, after the disappearance alarm raised by his family. Initially it was thought of an illness but the Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation and the autopsy revealed that Masia was killed by the impact with a piece of machinery. A couple of weeks after the accident, arson had completely destroyed the shed. Now the investigation will certainly lead to a trial, it remains to be established whether only Saba will go to trial or also the other suspects.
(Unioneonline)
