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UNION TRIBUNE ON-LINE INFORMATION COLLECTION OF 12 July 2010

The museum opened in Herculaneum ghost twice, never opened

excavations left to decay, an exhibition prepared by the ' 78 and never opened: 4000 exhibits forgotten in vaults and warehouses. And Pompeii lose visitors. While the magistrates investigating the use of EU funds

ERCOLANO - A museum Ercolano antiquarium is a ghost even though it was built 35 years ago and opened twice, in '78 and '93 (the windows still packed), has never been opened.

, the four archaeological finds that would accommodate lie many years in the armored bank vault. Or deposited in warehouses, some of whom infiltrated by the rains.

The "cradle of charred wood," the "bronze statue of Bacchus, the sculptures of the" house of the deer, "the" original "re-emerged between the skeletons, and then the furniture blackened from 500 degrees of blazing volcanic cloud are just some of the pearls of "museum that does not exist", denied the curiosity of the three hundred thousand visitors each year who go to Herculaneum.

Even the "spa", the most striking part of the excavations, are closed to the public, visitors will find the door locked and no sign to explain why.

same fate for the "ancient theater, the most famous being the first excavations in the 700: it is inaccessible to the public.

The three hundred casts of bodies charred by the eruption in 79 AD, found at the beach under a blanket of 19 feet of volcanic mud, still have not been exposed in the place of occurrence, despite works for their construction have started 12 years ago.

If crying Herculaneum, Pompeii is not laughing. An example: in Pompeii, the site of the fugitives, a jewel of recent excavations of the mid-nineties Fio financed by EU funds, is barred by a rope incredibly wrinkled.

Again no sign offering any explanation. It is located in the region before, 22nd insula "of the archaeological site, a few meters from the garden of the fugitives.

But visitors can not access this area raised, of exceptional interest (you can see the bodies of people who survived the first eruption, but killed by volcanic mud while trying to escape over a meter of pumice) because the entrance is denied them by a rope.

The staircase is devoid of the first step, the glass case is bullet-proof security to the dusty casts from who knows how long.

groped hard to explain to the "dark evil" that plagues has always been the sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii, but who has sharpened in recent years that have seen recently, even the Commissioners by an official of the Civil Protection.

entire administrative machinery of the superintendents bells, moreover, seems in disarray for some time. Is it possible, for example, than that of Naples, from which depend on since last August Herculaneum and Pompeii, is governed by the former Acting Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture - now retired - Joseph Proietti, who is both too special superintendent of Rome and Ostia? But not only. The superintendence of Salerno, on which the archaeological sites of Avellino, Benevento and Caserta, is entrusted to Dr. Maria Luisa Nava, whose appointment has received the records of cancellations: they rejected the Tar (with confirmation by the Council of State), and a decree of the President of the Republic. Nevertheless, he continues to perform his duties with the risk that any acts by you to be signed formally invalid.

All this happens while a leading expert of the excavations (300 scientific publications including Herculaneum and Pompeii), the leader Mario Pagano - inexplicably driven by the Superintendence of Salerno after only three months after being appointed by public procedure - has long been mobbed by the Ministry of Culture. Pagano is left at home for over a year salary, but without charge, despite two orders of the Labour Court have placed their full reintegration in the roles of the regional archaeological bell. The pattern of harassment against him could hide in a criminal investigation by the prosecution to Salerno top secret management "happy" the assets of the Superintendency of Salerno.

pm The Rocco Alfano and his police have already obtained an account of recent years, particularly for projects financed by the EU.

The criminal investigation draws upon the defensive investigations - then riversatesi in a statement in the prosecution - Katie Verlingieri Advocate (legal Pagano), who discovered strange irregularities in the accounts of some jobs funded by the EU in Paestum and Velia.

The lawyer-investigator, armed with a tape recorder, is able to show that a shortfall of 400 000 euro for the supervision of Salerno was "cured" from the funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture on the basis of an expert false, for maintenance work which was never actually made. (ALBERTO CUSTODERO)