9 January 2008

Pianura, Italy

I’m publishing a letter I’ve received from Eugenio Cocozza, a citizen of Pianura:
“Signor Minister Antonio Di Pietro,
I am turning to you with the deference and the respect that is due to your position and to your person.
The one writing is an Italian citizen who is unlucky enough to live in the neighbourhood of the Pianura rubbish tip and who has felt the need to go out in the streets to make a civil protest about its reopening. Many people are indignant because a part of the population of Pianura has dared to oppose the reopening of the rubbish tip by using “violence”. However, I would like to tell you about certain aspects of this decision to reopen it that are no less “violent”.
Signor Minister, none of those in the Campania Region who have been handling the refuse emergency over the last 14 years have felt the need to say sorry to the citizens of Campania and especially to those of Pianura who for half a century have accepted refuse from the Region of Campania and from the North of Italy. This also includes clandestine refuse, the so-called special refuse, the kind that makes you land up in the cancer departments of half of Italy. The Pianura neighbourhood, for what it has given in all these years should have deserved to be transformed into a small Switzerland rather than be handed over by Politics and by the Institutions to the camorra and to degradation.”

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Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information