ASBESTOS: EX WORKERS ETERNIT; ASSOCIATION OFFERS LEGAL SUPPORT (ANSA) - Lecce, MARCH 8 -''''deep sympathy to the families of former emigrants from Salento in Switzerland who are suffering the onset of cancer due to asbestos, after years of work at the Eternit Niederurner is expressed in a statement by the victims of uranium. The asbestos issue''and 'very similar to that of depleted uranium,''notes the association's lawyer Bruno Ciarmoli. In both cases''- he said - and we 'found in front of a silent killer which the military ignored the danger and the workers' and often came into contact with the substance without any precautionary measure.'' E'''for this - he concludes - we'll be on the side of Salento affected families, alle quali siamo disposti ad offrire il nostro supporto legale. Le condizioni per un'azione risarcitoria per le vittime e i familiari ci sono tutte''.
AMIANTO:EX OPERAI ETERNIT SVIZZERA TORNATI IN SALENTO MALATI I SEGNI DELLA MALATTIA SUL 35% DEI PRIMI 194 OPERAI ESAMINATI
(ANSA) - LECCE, 8 MAR - Circa mille salentini, tutti concentrati tra i territori di Corsano e Tiggiano, nel Capo di Leuca, tutti ex emigranti tornati in Italia dopo aver lavorato nello stabilimento della Eternit, a Niederurnen, in Svizzera, stanno morendo uno dopo l'altro per la comparsa del cancro ai polmoni a causa delle polveri respirate durante their activities' work. This data is provided by the ASL and submit to periodic visits to the former workers. The history of these former workers and 'told today in the pages of''La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.'' Around 1960, many young people who were working in Italy have gone direct from Salento in Switzerland, the Eternit factory, taking away, by word of mouth, family, friends and neighbors. Switzerland are from the country then returned home to enjoy their retirement but soon discovered to be sick. All are subject to periodic inspections by local health authorities to carry out visits to Lecce free pneumologic annual virtues' of an agreement with the Union of Municipalities''''Terra di Leuca. Many of the former Eternit workers are already 'died of cancer. Today only about 250 survive in Corsano, another 200 in Tiggiano, a few dozen scattered in neighboring countries such as Gagliano del Capo and Alessi. The first data available to the local health authorities announced a disaster on the first 194 cases examined, 35% have already 'symptoms of cancer. A massacre''- reads in the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno - that is quietly canceling an entire generation.'' ''When the managers knew the checks - he says a worker - they made us turn off the machines to clean the dust.''
