Calenzano, investigation closed for 9 suspects: 7 are from Eni

Notice of completion of investigations by the Prato Public Prosecutor's Office to nine suspects in connection with the explosion at the Eni depot in Calenzano, Tuscany, which on 9 December 2024 caused five deaths, 27 injuries and extensive damage. Seven are executives and managers of Eni, two of the contractor company Sergen.

They are charged with multiple culpable homicide, culpable disaster and injury. On the other hand, the year-long evidentiary accident excluded that Eni spa could be convicted of administrative offence since, says the prosecutor, "the organisational model turned out to be correct" and "no evidence emerged for a causal link between the model's provisions and the events" that occurred.

With regard to Eni spa's compliance with the organisational model, the prosecution reports that it cannot charge the employer Patrizia Boschetti, the legal representative of the operational management of Eni's Centro Eni depots, the company on which the Calenzano depot also depends, with failure to supervise.

The notice of indictment was therefore served on the suspects Luigi Cullurà, Carlo Di Perna, Marco Bini, Andrea Strafelini, Elio Ferrara, Emanuela Proietti, and Enrico Cerbino - all of whom hold various positions within Eni's staff - plus Francesco Cirone, employer of the company carrying out work at the depot, Sergen srl, and Luigi Murno, head of the same Sergen.

In addition, the public prosecutor's office prepared another, parallel notice of conclusion of investigation for environmental offences related to the alleged spillage of hydrocarbons in a ditch adjacent to the Eni depot in Calenzano: the notice was served on Patrizia Boschetti, as legal representative of Centro Eni spa; Luigi Cullurà, manager of the Eni depot in Calenzano; and Marco Bini.