Sloi: fabbrica dei veleni

Abstract

SLOl There is, in the now distant memory, a workplace that was also a Calvary. And there is a date, that of July 14, 1978, which threatened to go down in history as the day that could mark the annihilation of the people of Trent. SLOl, from 1939 to the day of the fire that signaled its closure, poisoned a city by killing a number that can never be specified of workers and reducing many others to sick and crazed ghosts. Tetraethyl lead, the antiknock in gasoline, was SLOl's nightmare. It is still there. When the land and waterways into which the factory spilled its poisonous sewage are cleaned up, it will be built on, according to futuristic plans. But a mark will have to be left on those grounds so as not to forget what SLOl was, what it meant for its workers, for the Cristo Re neighborhood, for the city of Trento.