Resume Lies State There is no bad thing that the lie. Not a house was said that the devil is the prince of lies. So you will draw the logical conclusion by reading the following article.
Carry a piece of the New York Times on August 30 that makes a discussion of waste materials in campania ROBLEMS. While the psycho-dwarf Berlusconi occasionally does a bit of folklore vscendendo in Naples, does not solve the real problem. The anpoletani think they are safe, but do not know that soon the emergency ripiomberà upon us, perhaps in other, more dramatic (read tumors, cancer, ...)
My land is not directly Naples, Sorrento, but specifically lacampania , where the PDL was a true plebiscite. Characters who were elected frequentvano the company for years and who have not and they do nothing for us. Nothing new under the sun.
only anger that burns and makes you feel satisfied with the Sorrento of this government and risoluzoine of waste when they do not know the truth.
Let us discover it together.
publishing the article in the Los Angeles Times titled "The Italian Mafia block efforts to clean up piles of toxic waste "
" Residents in the Naples area have a rate of cancer and other diseases higher. Campaigners fighting have been threatened and witnesses killed.
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy - Raffaele del Giudice was a crusader. Locked in a sport coat and a beat-up Fiat, he roamed for illegal dumps of southern Italy, covering his nose against the stench and exposing what he considers the ecological crime of secolo.Poi people began to be threatened. Ostracized. Killed. Del Giudice called off his crusade.
Because when you clash with the trash here in Campania, you fighting against a powerful mafia brutal known as Camorra. The Camorra, which is based in Naples, controls the import, transport and disposal of millions of tons of garbage, around a very lucrative business in which the group follows its own rules, ignores the laws on toxic waste and contaminates that a was once fertile farmland, country side, forests and rivers.
Apart from the unpleasantness of it all, evidence suggests now that the garbage is poisoning the food chain and may cause cancer, birth defects and other health problems. Judge calls the Chernoyl of Italy.
There are other symbols of rotten dramatic and persistent power of the mafia, and impotence - some say voluntary - government deal with it. It 's almost a cliche: Tony Soprano, after all, was responsible for "waste disposal". (Character of a television series, The Sopranos, on the Italian-American mafia, NDT)
For most of last year, the region was stifled under toreggianti festering mountains of garbage and not collected. Landfills, legal and illegal, were full to overflowing. Until cleanup crews have finally moved in July, seas of trash blocked roads and doorways and swallowed sidewalks and parks. The Camorra periodically paid Gypsy boys to set fire to portions of the waste, creating scenes of Dante, a land with fire, villages and towns filled with toxic fire.
The scourge of southern Italy has earned sanctions by the European Union and condemnation from international health organizations. He awakened violent protests this year and contributed to the downfall of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in the spring.
This is not a new problem. For more than 15 years, the government has spent more than a billion and € 300 million and has named seven "trash czars," the problem has not disappeared. Not resolved because the mafiosi, and politicians who take in hand, they do not want it to be.
"For years the wastes were accomulati, it was not done anything to clean them, and the consequences are lethal." Said Donato Ceglie, the chief prosecutor that deals with the "eco-mafia" in this region. "They have poisoned the land. They have poisoned the water. It is getting worse. The trash is still arriving. "
The racket works like this. Hundreds of factories, industrial complexes and companies of all types in the affluent northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe contacted the Ombudsman to have their waste removed. To reduce costs, these brokers turn to about 20 disposal firms in Campania, almost all, prosecutors say, controlled by the mob.
The Camorra has enthusiastically made Italy's poor south the landfill in the world, or at least parts of the world. Trucks transporting waste to the south day and night, year-round, and deposit it in mostly illegal and unregulated landfills.
No amount of garbage is too horrible: metallurgical dross, sludge of tanneries, tires, discarded refrigerators and cookers, rotting animal carcasses, medical waste - a nauseating cesspool of crap.
The Camorra have gradually driven away farmers and gained control of more and more land, where to download the stuff. But Campania is filling up.
And so the Camorra has gone global.
Huge containers, coming from China full of toys and shoddy fake designer clothing, then download and fill with trash, prosecutors say. Speaking of Police two years ago, the customs officials have confiscated 9,000 tons of waste materials that had been smuggled on cargo ships, half destined for China.
Environmentalists are particularly concerned about the effects on food production and health. Toxic substances are filtered from the waste into groundwater, polluting the streams where the cows and sheep drink grass they eat. More poison is spewed into the air when burning garbage.
Campania is home to buffalo herds whose milk is used to produce the best mozzarella. Unacceptable levels of dioxin, a carcinogen, were found this year in some mozzarella, threatening the export one of the best Italian products, a turnover of 350 million euro.
Scientists continue to study the link between waste and health, but are already showing alarming trends, according to the World Health Organization, including a rate exceeding regional or national norms for cancers of the stomach, kidneys, liver and lungs and even birth defects. In some areas between Naples and the city of Caserta, residents have two to three times more likely to develop liver cancer than those in the rest of the country, according to the Italian National Research Council.
At one of the many protests against the garbage this year, many women approached reporters to complain of what they call a plague of cancers and tumors afflicting their families. Some showed pictures of sick children, a woman showed the scars of what she described as a surgical operation for thyroid cancer. The public is disgusted
eventually becoming as large as the garbage and, with the head of the court, citizens have decided to defeat the Camorra and groped to reclaim land and restore a normal family life.
have installed fences to claim ownership of the campaign and to block the findings of the Camorra. Farmers have organized markets to sell their products and thousands of residents considered important attend. Schools have anti-mafia organized performances in the classroom.
"Seeing this type of life and unity has bothered the Camorra," he recalled with satisfaction of the court, 40, an excitable environmentalist with glasses and a mop of graying hair that you are.
He continued to wander the countryside, focusing in the so-called triangle of death between Naples and Caserta, an area where he was born and Moldova his family once farmed the land. He documented the illegal dumping el'orripilante pollution, secretly photographing what he discovered. It 'was the star of a documentary that recounted his findings and has taken the testimony of beleaguered farmers and sickened residents.
It was creating the momentum, and Del Giudice and his fellow activists expected police and state officials to give him support in challenging the Camorra.
Instead, the Camorra apparently decided to take the initiative. Killer Mafia began to systematically eliminate several people who were cooperating with prosecutors in investigations against the Camorra. Four people were killed in a few weeks, including businessman Michele Orsi.
Orsi ran a waste disposal company and worked with the Camorra. But after years in the pay of the Mafia and had to take orders from them and their political masters, has decided to become a turncoat to the state. E 'was killed by a burst of 18 bullets shortly before testifying in court on alleged ties between the Camorra and politicians.
The intimidation of farmers and others who were working with Del Giudice was more subtle. Farmers came in their fields and trees were felled during the night, or machinery destroyed. Gunmen shot at barns and greenhouses.
Several farmers and residents appeared in the documentary with Del Giudice fled the region, abandoning their properties, others have seen their business shrink to zero.
They turned to the judge: you have promised us that we would be helped and we've been lied to. E Del Giudice received warnings passed through acquaintances: Stay away.
"It 's my land, I was born here, and now I am told that I can not go," he said, on the verge of tears in his cluttered office in Naples, where the regional head of the environmental group Legambiente. "It's not only fear is depression."
The Camorra has suffered a great scofitta. An appeals court in Naples has confirmed life sentences for four of the major boss of one of the most powerful groups of the Camorra, ending a ten-year investigation called Operation Spartacus.
But few here think that will do much to slow down the activities of the Camorra. There are already other gangsters ready to take the place of those who go to prison.
"The Camorra laughs behind me now, "said Del Giudice. "They won."
