An unprecedented documentary heritage, consisting of millions of pages related to the Aldo Moro kidnapping and murder trials, will soon be accessible to all. Making it possible was a massive digitization effort sponsored by the General Directorate of Archives of the Ministry of Culture of Italy, which coordinated an ambitious eight-year project. At the heart of the initiative is the reorganization and digitization of all the court records kept at the Rome Corte d'Assise relating to the various proceedings in the Aldo Moro case.
This monumental work - which has involved inmates of the Rebibbia prison engaged in paths of social reintegration, flanked by professional archivists - has returned to the community the judicial version of one of the most dramatic moments in Republican history. “Within the year this step will also be completed, and at that point the entire repository will be available to anyone,” explained Antonio Tarasco, Director General of Archives. The papers will be published on the ministerial platform Rete degli archivi per non dimenticare, a tool intended to ensure transparency and public memory. Digitization began in 2017 at the initiative of Michele Di Sivo, former director of the Rome State Archives now headed by Riccardo Gandolfi.
This archival effort does not stop there. In fact, Director Tarasco assured that the project will continue with the goal of also making acts related to massacres and terrorism, both political and Mafia, accessible online, in addition to the sentences already published. This is an investment in memory and transparency that represents a fundamental step in making the history of Italian justice truly public.
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