What happened to the Grande Torino after the Grande Torino? This is the question that The Day After, the work by Enzo Savasta and Fabrizio Turco, tries to answer
“The Day After, the Grande Torino Dopo il Grande Torino”, the new work by Enzo Savasta and Fabrizio Turco, has been released. The book tells everything that happened after the Superga tragedy with the aim of answering the questions that have arisen in the following years, disproving false truths and bringing to light official documentation from those years. From 4 May 1949 to the investigations that followed it, from the trial to the story of the 1950s and mid-decade of the 1960s. Below is the press release.
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How were the investigations into the tragedy carried out? And how did the trials end? Who was the medium who anticipated the disaster? And again, who were Giusy Cutrona and Niny De Santis? But above all, what was the role of Fiat, of Professor Valletta and of a still young lawyer Agnelli, in the 1950s? Essentially, what happened to Grande Torino after Grande Torino? This is the question that The Day After, the work by Enzo Savasta and Fabrizio Turco, tries to answer. A work that is based on extensive documentation, much of it unpublished, starting from May 4, 1949, the day of the catastrophe. From that moment, the immediacy of the tragedy is reconstructed, from the recognition of the bodies to the funerals that paralyzed an entire city, an entire country. But why did the plane crash? It is the first key question (but not the only one) around which much of the book revolves; and to try to provide an answer, the causes of the accident are analyzed extremely carefully. From the characteristics of the aircraft to the weather conditions, up to the responsibilities of the pilots; all with the help of aeronautical experts. The research work of Savasta and Turco also focused in particular on the investigations and then led to the trial, with its three degrees of judgement, also delving into parallels and legal differences with another dramatic Granata affair, that of Gigi Meroni. In addition to the in-depth analysis of the fake news that fueled bizarre fantasies that, here and there, still persist today, the authors open a window – completely new – that sheds light on the following fifteen years, those that go from the beginning of the 1950s to until the mid-1960s. A period characterized by the repeated attempt by the lawyer Gianni Agnelli, and then by his brother Umberto, to achieve a merger between Turin and Juventus. But above all, a phase in which the Juventus funds, coming from Fiat governed in those years by Professor Valletta, contributed to financially supporting the Granata’s survival. A situation that is in some ways incredible, certainly surprising, supported by over a hundred documents, a good part of which are published in the volume. Even if it is now yellowed documentation given that, for over half a century, it had remained closed in the drawers of the offices that matter.
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April 24, 2024 (modified April 24, 2024 | 5:33 pm)
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