The Carthusian Monastery of Trisulti will not go to the extremist right. MiBAC permanently cancels the concession

The thorny affair of the Certosa di Trisulti foundation ( Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) ends with the revocation of its concession: the ancient thirteenth-century monastery in Collepardo (Frosinone, Italy) was in fact to become, for a full nineteen years, the headquarters of the foundation close to Steve Bannon (Donal Trump’s chief political strategist), who was to establish there an international training school aimed at spreading the foundation’s ideals. Ultra-right-wing ideals, since the DHI is an ultra-conservative and extremist Christian foundation that aims to “defend the Judeo-Christian foundations of Western civilization through the recognition that man is made in the image and likeness of God.”

Local people had already launched strong protests last year to say no to the foundation, and theprocess to revoke it had begun in May, when the MiBAC, then headed by Alberto Bonisoli, had initiated in-depth investigations into the modalities of the concession: shortly afterwards, irregularities emerged that prevented DHI from being eligible to occupy the Charterhouse. MiBAC had therefore let it be known that DHI would be removed from the monastery.

The irregularities, in particular, were many: the DHI, the then undersecretary Gianluca Vacca had let it be known, did not have the recognition of legal personality; it did not have among its statutory purposes the carrying out of activities for the protection, promotion, enhancement or knowledge of cultural and landscape heritage; did not have a documented experience of at least five years in the field of collaboration for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage; did not have a documented experience in the management, in the five years preceding the publication of the call for bids, of at least one cultural property, public or private, with certification from the territorially competent superintendency of adequate maintenance and opening to public use. In addition, DHI had not even fulfilled its payment of concession fees, ordinary and extraordinary maintenance obligations, and custodial and supervisory obligations.

The epilogue came today with the official note from the ministry, which annulled the concession measure. “The measure,” the note reads, “came at the end of the procedure initiated in August 2019 from which it emerged that, contrary to what was declared at the time of the application, the association did not meet the requirements of the notice for the concession to private individuals of properties in the state cultural domain.”

In the photo: the Charterhouse of Trisulti. Ph. Credit

The Carthusian Monastery of Trisulti will not go to the extremist right. MiBAC permanently cancels the concession

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