Book cover The day after
The day after the Superga tragedy, after that damned crash at 5.03pm on 4 May 1949, the history of Torino took a certain path and many questions arose and many still remain unanswered today, 75 years later, but it has remained the desire to understand, to know, to shed light remains unchanged. How the investigations into the tragedy? And how did they end up processes? Who was there medium That anticipated the disaster? And again, who they were Giusy Cutrona and Niny De Santis? But above all, what was the role of the Fiatof the Professor Valletta and an anchor young lawyer Agnelliin the fifties?
Essentially, what happened to Grande Torino after Grande Torino? This is the question he tries to answer “The Day After”the work of Enzo Savasta and Fabrizio Turco edited by Bradipolibri. A work that is based on extensive documentation, largely unpublished, starting from May 4, 1949, the day of the catastrophe.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 levels 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.
“The day after. The Grande Torino after the Grande Torino” will be presented on Monday 6 May at 6.30 pm in the Peterlin room of the Basilica of Supergamunicipal road to the Basilica of Superga 73 a Turinand subsequently Wednesday 8 May at 4pm in the Chamber of Deputies in Palazzo MontecitorioMonte Citorio square a Rome.
The book will be on sale in bookstores from Monday 29 April and online on Amazon and other commercial sites.
