The initial court decision in December 2017 found the Astrasol shoe-sole factory guilty of using an excessive amount of dichloromethane R40, a chemical classified as ‘likely to be carcinogenic in humans’.
The court ruled that government authorities and Astrasol were inadvertently liable for creating a cancer cluster of people working and living in the factory’s vicinity.
Those found guilty were Astrasol, one of its directors, Fivos Liasis, and the state, via the attorney-general (on behalf of the labour inspection department, the ministry of health and the town planning department).
The government departments in question were deemed responsible for allowing the factory to continue its operation without the required permits, and for not taking steps to mitigate its toxic emissions.
Meanwhile, in February 2020, Nicosia District court denied the attorney general’s request for the government to delay paying plaintiffs who successfully sued the shoe factory for causing them health issues, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The court awarded a combined €433,000 in damages to six plaintiffs. However, some of them have since passed away.
The class-action suit, involving 22 plaintiffs in total, was filed back in 2010.
People life’s is not a joke. Take action and protect the human live from any work related danger.
Unfortunately the higher court decided otherwise. Regardless of all the evidence against the factory.
That’s the real joke here.
Did i really need another reason, today, to fucking hate how this place operates….
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The initial court decision in December 2017 found the Astrasol shoe-sole factory guilty of using an excessive amount of dichloromethane R40, a chemical classified as ‘likely to be carcinogenic in humans’.
The court ruled that government authorities and Astrasol were inadvertently liable for creating a cancer cluster of people working and living in the factory’s vicinity.
Those found guilty were Astrasol, one of its directors, Fivos Liasis, and the state, via the attorney-general (on behalf of the labour inspection department, the ministry of health and the town planning department).
The government departments in question were deemed responsible for allowing the factory to continue its operation without the required permits, and for not taking steps to mitigate its toxic emissions.
Meanwhile, in February 2020, Nicosia District court denied the attorney general’s request for the government to delay paying plaintiffs who successfully sued the shoe factory for causing them health issues, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The court awarded a combined €433,000 in damages to six plaintiffs. However, some of them have since passed away.
The class-action suit, involving 22 plaintiffs in total, was filed back in 2010.
People life’s is not a joke. Take action and protect the human live from any work related danger.
Unfortunately the higher court decided otherwise. Regardless of all the evidence against the factory.
That’s the real joke here.
Did i really need another reason, today, to fucking hate how this place operates….