Naples streets cleared of rubbish
by David Masters
July 25, 2008
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, this week declared the Naples rubbish crisis over, with tonnes of rotting rubbish having been removed from the city’s streets.
Speaking at a cabinet office meeting, Berlusconi said he was fulfilling a promise made 2 months ago, although a long term solution to Naple’s rubbish could take up to three years.
Official landfill sites were declared full last year, so from January this year rubbish was left to rot in the streets.
Local residents refused to allow any more landfill sites to be built, protesting every time a new site was proposed.
Rotting rubbish was frequently burned openly in the streets, releasing toxic chemicals which caused sickness and disease.
Berlusconi says the city needs four new incinerators, which will take three years to build. The first incinerator, which will produce electricity from burnt rubbish, is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, Naples rubbish is being taken to other landfill sites across Italy and Europe, and the Italian Army has been sent into the city to ensure that local residents do not picket emergency landfill sites.
Although the city centre of Naples is now clear of rubbish, photographs have shown that much of it has just been moved into the city’s suburbs.
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Just so you all know, the rubbish crysis is still going on.
Berlusconi on the 18th of July has publicly claimed that he solved the problem.
That is not true.
The rubbish has been removed from the center of the city, but in the peripheral areas and in the provinces, the problem is still the same.
Journalists are being intimidated and warned to not spread news on the rubbish still in the streets, and people who try to protest are intimidated as well.
Just check the following youtube videos:
In the first one, some people are being intimidated by the police to avoid their protest reaching the palace where Berlusconi is announcing that the “rubbish emergency” has been solved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTgrBV6ExEQ
Berlusconi declared the emergency solved in the 18th of July 2008.
You can see with your eyes what is happening
21 July (13km from Naples)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Sa6mTbXq4
8 August, says the date on the newspaper
(Firefighters are blocked by the trash and there’s rubbish burning)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0V5-Fxj2M
8 September, just a couple of Kilometers from the city port.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYlAw88E3rA
People that make this videos public are risking.
They have organized crime against them. The organized crime profited from the emergency, and too much media attention was ruining their businessess. Bringing back the attention of the media and the eyes of the world upon the problem is the only way to fight them effectively.
From Italy: please, don’t forget this.
Comment by John Smith — October 2, 2008 @ 1:25 pm