Vajont, the Solomonic epilogue of the battle for reminiscence: “The information of the trial in L’Aquila, the digital copies in Belluno”

The trial archives in L’Aquila, the digital copy in Belluno. Thus, with a Solomonic resolution by the Ministry of Tradition which finally dissatisfied the folks of Belluno, the controversy over the archives of the Vajont catastrophe ended.

The 256 folders containing the trial paperwork had been in L’Aquila as a result of there, 550 kilometers away to keep away from strain on the judges, each the primary diploma and the enchantment for the tragedy that on the night of 9 October 1963 attributable to a landslide that fell from the slope of Monte Toc into the hydroelectric basin which went over the dam and brought on nearly two thousand deaths.

The ‘journeys’ of the folders

The paperwork had been saved, till a drain pipe broke, in a basement of the L’Aquila court docket; then they had been moved to the Authorities Palace, the historic seat of the State Archives of the Abruzzo capital. In 2008 the trial file was handed over to the Archival Institute which carried out the stock. Nonetheless, on 6 April 2009 the Abruzzo capital was shaken and devastated by an earthquake; the facade of the Authorities Palace decreased to rubble, the architrave damaged in half, however the metallic cupboards that saved the Vajont paperwork resisted the collapse. The folders had been briefly transferred to a shed however the next 12 months the paperwork went to the State Archives of Belluno to proceed the doc stock and digitization challenge. The custody continued due to a sequence of extensions and regardless of the expiration of the settlement till L’Aquila started to reclaim his paperwork. And, on the identical time, Belluno needs to protect them.

The disputed Vajont folders

Now the dicastery of By way of del Collegio Romano, responding to the query introduced by the deputies of the Democratic Occasion Rachele Scarpa e Piero Fassino through which it was requested to make the switch of the procedural archive fund of the Vajont catastrophe to the headquarters of the Belluno Archive definitive, established that, as soon as the digitization is completed, the procedural archives will return to L’Aquila, whereas a digital copy will stay in Belluno .

A very unsatisfactory response for the Democratic Occasion: «The ministry’s response is a mindless closure – feedback Scarpa – As underlined by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella final 12 months on the ceremony for the sixtieth anniversary of the catastrophe, the large worth of these paperwork for the native inhabitants makes it “acceptable, if not needed” to maintain the paperwork in Belluno, as a result of they now have a memorial objective. The Vajont catastrophe was a novel occasion by way of severity and human accountability by way of environmental impression and the sacrifice of lives within the identify of revenue. The voices of that course of should be preserved near the communities that also at this time retain its scars on the partitions of their houses or within the tales of oldsters and grandparents.”