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Germany court OKs arrest of Thyssen managers

(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 22 - A court in the German city of Essen ruled Friday that an arrest warrant for two German managers of ThyssenKrupp charged over a fire that killed seven workers is also valid in Germany. But the pair, Harald Espenhahn and Gerald Priegnitz, have contested the ruling, filing an appeal at a court in Hamm. Last March one of several former Thyssenkrupp managers who were convicted over a fire at the company's Turin steel plant in December 2007 in which seven workers died asked for clemency from President Sergio Mattarella. Marco Pucci has been in prison since May 2016 serving a term of six years, three months. (ANSA).