The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Italy violated the right to life of Italians living in a toxic-waste polluted area around Naples and ordered the government to develop a strategy to address and monitor the contamination and resulting health problems.
The binding judgement from the Strasbourg-based court confirmed that increased rates of cancer and groundwater pollution had been recorded in the area of 90 municipalities known as the Tierra dei Fuoci, or Land of Fires, where some 2.9 million people live.
