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Plan to Preserve Sites and Prevent Interference by Organized Crime at Pompeii

Italy Unveils Plan to Preserve Sites and Prevent Interference by Organized Crime at Pompeii


April 5, 2012

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/wo...er=rss&emc=rss

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After years of criticism that Italy was not sufficiently caring for one of its most famous, and fragile, archeological sites, the Italian government came out on Thursday with a long-term plan for the protection of Pompeii. A team of government ministers presented the plan at a news conference in Naples that came on the heels of the approval last week of a €105 million, or $137 million, contribution for the site from the European Commission. The commission was alarmed by a series of structural collapses at the ruins over the past 18 months that drew the attention of news media worldwide and raised worries about the fragility of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

- Almost as concerning, however, is the longtime influence of the Camorra, the Neapolitan organized crime network, in the region. In announcing their plan, government officials made clear the new measures were intended to ensure that the funds reached their destination, pledging that not one euro would make its way into illicit hands. Most of the funds — €85 million — will be spent on the restoration and conservation of the site. The Great Pompeii Project, as the program has been named, “will show the European Union that Italy can spend for the future,” said Antonia Pasqua Recchia, general secretary of the Culture Ministry. The officials also said the influx of European Union money should also help stimulate the economy in an economically depressed area where the unemployment rate is nearly 17 percent, well above the national rate of more than 9 percent.

- Concerns that the Camorra could infiltrate the companies that win the bids for the public works at Pompeii led to the establishment of protocol announced Thursday. Fernando Guida, the Interior Ministry official appointed as an anti-Camorra watchdog said, “experience has taught us” that subcontracts and construction works in particular “are areas that attract the interest of organized crime.” Not everyone is convinced that the project will have the desired effect. Antonio Irlando, an architect whose organization monitors Pompeii said he was concerned that it did not sufficiently guarantee the day-to-day maintenance of the site. “This is a strange country, to do normal things you have to resort to extraordinary measures,” he said.

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You can't overestimate the influence the Camorra has in Campania. It's absolutely massive, they are involved in all levels of government.

On the other hand we cannot just let Pompei crumble. It is one of the most amazing places I've ever been to, precisely because it connects us to the everyday life of ancient peoples in a way that very few sites in the world can.

I didn't even realize this before I visited, but they have not excavated the entire town. If you walk east (I think) from the main entrance by the train station, you eventually reach a point where the buildings recede into a hillside and the ground plane suddenly rises up 25'.
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