If you are honest, but live in a society ruled by Italian mafia-like gangs, things won’t be easy for you. The main characteristic of a community ruled with the strict code of this Italian system of corruption is a pact of silence. Whoever wants to live in this thorny society, where laws are either broken or outright ignored, must adapt. Or leave.
Italy has many such communities, here the might (of the establishments) makes right. Such corrupt system is almost the backbone of the Italian democracy, because it is visible even within public offices. Not that Italian corruption is new to anyone. Yet, living in a corrupt State makes the people indifferent, they accept it, or even join this rule of unlawfulness.
Now try to imagine all that corruption exported to another State. That State is the Free Territory of Trieste, sub-entrusted to the Italian Government’s temporary civil administration. How does it go?
Since 1954, the present-day Free Territory of Trieste is ruled by a lobby of fanatics, who are connected with Italian mafias and deviant freemasons, and hidden behind anacronistic Italian nationalism to avoid punishment for its crimes (LINK).
Becoming a land of the mafias was the worst possible fate for Trieste, a city that prospered as part of Mitteleuropa and thanks to the House of Habsbourg’s rule.
And, unfortunately, the consequences of this misfortune are well visible: this little State (212 km2) became a convenient dumping ground for Italian ecomafias (LINK).
In Trieste, any attempt to report polluters may end with your own conviction. This is because, since a long time, even the judiciary hosts people willing to protect the local nationalistic camorra. Either by convicting the claimants, or declaring pollution-related crimes time-barred.
This is how Trieste has become a colony of illegality in the name of Italy.Not even the European Court of Justice’s rulings apply to it, because the local authorities refuse to comply with them.
Recently, the press took notice of this rather unusual “system” due to the case of the landfill in Porto San Rocco (Muggia), within a marina and fully authorized by local authorities.
Environmentalist organization Greenaction Transnational has brought the case to the European Court of Justice’s attention, and the Court has ruled against Italy (and the landfill).
Only, the Mayor of Muggia has violently attacked the complainants, claiming that reclaiming the dumping ground – again, it is in a residential and touristic area (with a beach)! – is unnecessary. Why? Because, he said, it had been done already.
Except, the waste is still there.
Newspaper “Il Piccolo” published the news in no time: what better chance to turn the courageous citizens that denounced not only the landfill, camouflaged as green area-playground, as well as the trafficking of waste behind it into public enemies?
Translated from blog “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante
The article of Il Piccolo, title “The Parco delle Vele has already been remediated – Mayor and Muggia and Porto San Rocco spa disprove Greenaction by papers: ”severe lies”.
Follows my retractation to “Il Piccolo”. A small reminder about what “legality” means.
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On 18.IX.2015 local newspaper Il Piccolo published an article (province section) concerning the situation of pollution in the parco delle vele in the marina of Porto San Rocco paying particular attention to the declarations of the mayor of Muggia Nerio Nesladek and of the Porto San Rocco SPA which are seriously offensive against me, as responsible o environmentalist organization Greenaction Transnational.
The article, with the deceptive title “Il Parco delle Vele è già stato bonificato” (The Parco delle Vele has already been remediated) wants to unfairly persuade the reders that the public denounce of myself and Greenaction Transnational on the existence of a dangerous landfill of toxic and hazardous waste under the artificial hill known as Parco delle Vele within the marina of Port San Rocco is unjustified and pretentious.
In the article, both the mayor of Muggia and the Porto San Rocco SPA claim that the landfill does no longer exist since “the green area known as Parco delle Vele has already been subject to remediation in compliance with the law”. The Mayor of Muggia Nesladek declares, to support this claim that “the interventions carried out in the Parco delle Vele respond to the project to ensure its permanent safety that was approved by the Region on 7 April 2015”.
Considering the seriousness of the accusations against me (and the fact that the journalists would have verified them before publication) I precise the following:
1) the illegal landfill within the Parco delle Vele in the area of Porto San Rocco was recognized as such with a final judgment of the European Court of Justice on 2 December 2014 as part of case C -196/13;
2) this judgment was preceded by another judgment of 26 April 2007 (Case C-135/05) of the same Court of Justice which ordered the remediation of the area;
3) for failing to comply with the first judgment, Italy was condemned to pay monetary sanctions ruled in Case C-196/13 and until completing the environmental remediation;
4) the operations to grant permanent safety of the Parco delle Vele were completed only on 7 April 2015 (testing took place on 28 April), meaning 4 months after the Court had ruled the final conviction, even if Italian authorities have had 12 years since the beginning of the infringement proceeding to take care of it, and 8 years since the first judgment of conviction;
5) also, the permanent security does only consist in granting that the pollutant agents won’t leak from the landfill as long as this is not remediated;
6) to remediate the landfill (decontamination) it is necessary taking care of characterization, which means verifying the current status of pollution, which requires collecting core samples in the landfill. In order to do so, it would be necessary breaking the sealing realized with a plastic membrane (the guarantee on its sealing has even expired in 2009) and collect samples of polluted soil to verify the presence of pollutant agents from the underlying landfill, but also from the aquifer.
Therefore, to this day, no environmental remediation of the contaminated area of the Parco delle Vele was completed, and it did not even start. The remediation will be complete only when the membrane that contains 18,000 cubic meters of contaminated land is extracted from the artificial hill namely said Parco delle Vele to be brought in authorized disposal facilities (following verification of the quality of the waste, to be carried out with the characterization) where it can be finally disposed.