AND died yesterday, aged 62, from mesothelioma, a tumor caused by exposure to asbestos, Mariusz Marian Sodkiewicz, a former Rai employee who, a couple of months ago, had filed a complaint with the Rome Prosecutor's Office asking «to identify and judge the managers responsible for the failure to protect employees exposed to 'asbestos' in the headquarters of the public company in Viale Mazzini, Rome. This was made known by Ona, the National Asbestos Observatory, which “for a long time” has been working “to clarify the presence of the “silent killer” in the state television buildings”.
The Prosecutor's Office has opened a case for negligent personal injury: prosecutors decided to suspend the funeral to allow forensic doctors to carry out an autopsy on the body of Mariusz Marian Sodkiewicz. The former employee of the public company, originally from Lubsko, Poland, had carried out various roles in Rai offices for 22 years since 2002. «In July 2023», explains the Observatory in a note, «he began to show the characteristic symptoms of pleural mesothelioma: difficulty breathing, persistent cough and chest pain. Subsequent clinical tests confirmed the presence of the disease, attributing it to his exposure to asbestos.”
The man was followed by the same lawyer, Ezio Bonanni, who assists Franco Di Mare, journalist and former director of Rai3, also affected by mesothelioma, which he may have contracted during his work as a war correspondent in Rai. “The death of Sodkiewicz, which also raises questions about safety at work and the responsibility of institutions”, he explained to the Courier the lawyer – who is also president of the National Asbestos Observatory and who had anticipated it two more cases of respiratory diseases in Rai – «it is one of the many painful testimonies of the devastating consequences of exposure to asbestos in the workplace».
In the Rai Supervisory Commission, the CEO Roberto Sergio, regarding the case of Franco Di Mare, spoke of «documentation which certifies that in viale Mazzini there is no risk at the moment of contamination”.
Source: Vanity Fair
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