Champagne, bottles of wine and beer: the base price was 700 euros, but the raises reached 1800. The relatives of the 29 victims were shocked
Four bottles of Dom Perignon, two of champagne Crystal. Two bottles of Barolo, two of Brunello di Montalcino. It's still, dozens of wines of various types and sparkling wines of different brands, cartons of beer, liters of extra virgin olive oil and a pack of balsamic vinegar.
From tragedy to auction
The bottles recovered in the Farindola area, in the province of Pescara, were auctioned Rigopiano hotel cellar, which in the late afternoon of 18 January 2017 had been hit by a disastrous avalanche that had broken off from a ridge and killed 29 people, including mainly tourists. At the auction, in Via Alfonso di Vestea, in Pescara, there are also furnishings, ceramics, plates, paintings, frames, sculptures, mirrors and, again, armchairs, tables, desks, bookcases: all the furnishing accessories that are not they were destroyed by the terrible avalanche and recovered from the rubble. Only one of the 15 lots was awarded, that of bottles containing fine wines, champagne and beers, kept in the resort's cellar. The base price was 700 euros, but the raises have reached 1800.
The reaction of the victims' relatives
Relatives of the victims, when they discovered it, explained that they were incredulous and upset. Romolo Reboa, the lawyer who, together with the association Giustitalia, assists the families of the victims, informs that "what has upset the family is that there has been a gruesome auction that has seen more people compete to secure the bottles of the cellar of death .
The president of the victims' committee, Gianluca Tanda, brother of Marco, one of the victims, explains to "Cronache Maceratesi": "Next Sunday we will meet to understand how to proceed. Maybe the furnishings that remained could be purchased by an institution to make us a museum of memory and remind everyone that such tragedies should no longer happen: only this can be a noble purpose, all the others are speculative: take home a heirloom Rigopiano, steal a memory ". Those bottles finished at auction, «although of fine wine, they no longer have labels: without any certification of their goodness, ruined by the infiltration of water and by the way in which they have been preserved they cannot be worth 700 euros as they cost then. And they even reach 1800 euros. A mess. The memory cannot be of anyone, boast of having a bottle coming from that place at home it is like a disfigurement towards the 29 victims.
"A further bitter and sad page," adds the committee Rigopiano, waiting for the flower, "That we continue to write from that damn day where many families have stopped toasting forever".
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