La scienza nel processo penale: Porto Marghera

Abstract

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”.

Keywords

• industrial pollution
• Montedison
• Porto Marghera
• safety at work
• workplace death
• inquinamento industriale
• morti sul lavoro
• sicurezza sul lavoro