September 5th, 2015: starts Free Trieste’s awareness-rising campaign about pollution in the Free Territory of Trieste. First step: Trebiciano – Trebče. This Karst town is the symbol of ruthless environmental devastation. Because this is what happened for decades in this small State, trampled on in breach of the Treaty of Peace of 1947, which recognizes its independence.
Wide-spread pollution that contaminates the sea, the coasts, the international Port of Trieste, and the inland, up to the highlands of the Karst. The Karst is indeed the area that paid the highest price to the Italian State’s eco-mafias. Hundreds of doline (natural valleys) and caves are gone, destroyed: now they are “convenient” landfills. And the local Italian authorities allowed the polluters to get away with it.
Sludge, hazardous waste, chemical and bacteriologic weapons, the Italian army’s debris of war, radioactive waste. All of this and more can be disposed in the Free Territory of Trieste. Apparently, the only “free” thing left here is the activities of the many forms of organized criminality.
Mafia-like organizations of northern and southern Italy, all together to destroy a harmless State. Harmless for it was abandoned by the international community, which should have granted its independence. Harmless for it is represented by a local political class of corrupted administrators who serve Italy.
And this is how this pollution was covered with a deafening silence, force by the occupying authorities. Nobody is responsible, there are only many victims of a crime that the citizens of the Free Territory cannot and won’t forget.
Translated from blog “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante