La scienza nel processo penale: Porto Marghera

It was called Morto Marghera. By the beautiful Venice, Porto Marghera has been since 1917 the area where a very important italian industrial development has taken place. It was the industrial estate where for example the Montedison company has empowered itself. The promise of a better future was the...

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Main Author: Marina de Ghantuz Cubbe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diacronie 2014-12-01
Series:Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
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Online Access:http://www.studistorici.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/07_deGHANTUZCUBBE.pdf
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Summary:It was called Morto Marghera. By the beautiful Venice, Porto Marghera has been since 1917 the area where a very important italian industrial development has taken place. It was the industrial estate where for example the Montedison company has empowered itself. The promise of a better future was the reason why a lot of workers and families moved here from all Italy. But after the seventies and the worker’s struggles the expectation moved in tragedy: 157 workers dead, killed by the substance they handled. Porto Marghera’s history shifts through a lawsuit in which the “truth” of scientific evidence risks to crush the justice and italian laws. In an interview Gianfranco Bettin recall the process: “it’s impossible to absolve who, knowing that workers were exposed to lethal effects, has hid”.
ISSN:2038-0925
2038-0925