That trial centers on a phone call Bertolaso made to a local official in setting up the commission's meeting, in which he said he was sending the experts to L'Aquila on a «media operation» to reassure the public and «shut up» a technician in the nearby Gran
Sasso nuclear physics laboratory who had allegedly made a series of alarming predictions of imminent strong earthquakes.
He works at the National Laboratories at Gran
Sasso, though he's been variously identified as a seismologist, physicist, and technician at Italy's National Institute of
Nuclear Physics, not Gran
Sasso's National Institute of
Nuclear Physics.