The contract for the External Night Surveillance Service for the Boscoreale Excavations has been suspended.
This was learned from a press release addressed to the trade unions CGIL/FP, CISL/FPS, UIL, CONFSAL UNSA, FLP/BAC, CONFiNTESA and USB, digitally signed by the Administrative Secretary Davide Russo "for the interim General Director".
The indirect formula of the signing of the provision would lead us to believe that the new Director General Zurchtriegel, recently appointed, will take up his post only in the next few days, perhaps starting from the end of this month of March, while the outgoing Director General Osanna would have definitively cast off the moorings to take up residence in the Capital at the helm of the Museums of Italy.
THE FIRST PROBLEM FOR DIRECTOR ZURCHTRIEGEL
In practice, Gabriel Zurchtriegel will find himself facing the thorn of a union agitation triggered by a very recent contract for Night Guarding and Surveillance, not attributable to him. The contract would have been awarded urgently and therefore subject to technical-administrative deregulation.
However, it must be said that with the same urgency it was withdrawn, according to a press release from the Pompeii Park Administration which states: "... this Park has taken into account what was raised" by the Unions. And then continues: "... the SSLL is informed that, starting from Monday 8.cm, the staff of the Boscoreale Site will be included in a single shift schedule that will be headed by the Coordinators of Pompeii Excavations who will manage the shifts of the entire staff".
We are therefore faced with a clear U-turn by the Park Administration, which contradicts the previous formal decisions to outsource that night surveillance service.
Antonio Pepe of CISL/FP said bluntly: “The unions unanimously see this decision as a dress rehearsal for the extension of a similar contract for the Night Surveillance Service to the entire archaeological area of Pompeii, and beyond. But they will be vigilant on the issue, even if in the meantime they want to understand how and by whom the initiative was born”.
For Zurchtriegel – fresh from selection with the stamp of President Emeritus Marta Cartabia, now Minister of Justice in Mario Draghi's Government – a thorny task therefore lies ahead, in the genesis of which he was certainly extraneous.
Massimo Osanna's preponderant "C factor" makes him inherit this first thorn. We remind readers that many have hailed the new appointment of Director to Gabriel Zurchtriegel, judged young and inexperienced, as the result of a questionable strategic move in the politics of Cultural Heritage. And many have seen the appointment as a coronation, a true dynastic succession, which would have been inspired by his predecessor, but skillfully woven by the highest ministerial office, his convinced sponsor.
For his part, Minister Franceschini, in the transition from the Conte-two government to the Draghi government, suffered - against his will - the amputation of the Materia Turismo and related matters. He therefore found himself today with a ministry crippled in its competences and downsized in its structure, after having casually ferried the entire ship of the MiBACT from the yellow-green Conte-one to the yellow-red Conte-two. And after having recovered it from Bonisoli, a technician passing through the BBCC, disappeared into the abyss of existential nothingness, after a brief season as minister, forgotten by most.
ANTI-MAFIA INSPECTIONS ON CONSTRUCTION SITES
But another thorn emerges from the Pompeian crown inherited by the blameless Zurchtriegel. It is that of the anti-mafia inspections of some construction sites in Pompeii - and therefore of the related technical and administrative documents - ordered by the Prefect of Naples Marco Valentini. The access is carried out by the Anti-mafia Investigation Directorate for the fight against mafia infiltration through its Operational Group. The latter operates at the Prefecture of Naples and was supported in the first access to the Pompeii excavations by the Carabinieri of the Pompeii CC Station under the command of Lieutenant Angelo Esposito. And, finally, we must not forget the investigation born at the end of the last legislature following a complaint from a series of parliamentarians from the Vesuvian District, and beyond, regarding the building that makes a fine show of itself (editor's note: so to speak...) at the Porta di Stabia of the Pompeii excavations in the former state-owned pine forest. Yes, the very one that was defined as an archaeomonster, but which today houses the offices of the Park. It is not known whether it is still awaiting final testing.
Frederick LI Frederick
Article published on March 7, 2021 - 12pm
Video Chronicles
