Intifada around the Vesuvius-rubbish again

Barricades of waste, trucks on fire. And police sent to stop people.
Henry Fierro
(www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
Terzigno (a small town near Naples where the goverment wants to open new waste disposals) off limits. We do not enter. Heaps of garbage, rotten beams, old furniture and even a toilet are the barricade. We must change course, take again the road to Angri crammed with waste, cans, old mattresses and mounds of food waste rotting down, and exit at Boscoreale. Here the blocks are heavier. There is a pull across to plug access, a bus line to block another. Two men carry on their shoulders a huge wardrobe to raise another barricade. Scenes of war in what was the Vesuvius National Park, now renamed by a placard hoisted by protesters "Park of rubbish."
The protesters occupied the town and climbed on the roofs. It also deals with the municipality of Boscoreale: people enter the room of the mayor and throws everything into the air. Papers and furniture. Around there are police officers, police departments and Mobile are all round the two sites which infect the lives of "Vesuvius". This is where the night between Monday and Tuesday and at dawn yesterday flew beatings, there were detentions and arrests, battered women, police officers wounded, trucks on fire. In the square in Boscoreale (another small town near Naples), a man as big as a wardrobe takes stock of the intifada s.
... three guards have sent to the hospital, 5 protesters have been arrested." Result: at nine o'clock in the morning via Zabatta, the road leading to the landfill Terzigno is still a long line of auto-compacting. Filled with waste and waiting. Thirty-eight passed, waiting for another thirty. The roundabout has become the headquarters of the uprising, and on roads leading to the landfill the infinite tragedy of this land. The police on the one hand on a war footing, shields, tear gas and batons, on the other Aniello Matrone. By trade contadino.Desperate.he approach the platoon, holding a basket of apples. They are ugly, deformed, the color is unnatural: "There are, killing us, look at these apples . Nobody buys, the land is dead. " And Lucia, Maria, Sonia, Deborah.Young ladies, elderly, housewives and teachers. "We approached the police and carabinieri with rosaries in in the hands,praying the Holy Vergin, they beat us. An elderly woman was raised in weight, was lying on the ground not to pass the truck. "
Good people, exasperated, frightened, abandoned by every authority and politics, who in Campania eternal emergency no longer has neither words nor credible programs. But just meat. Like those who at night, when they arrive with compactors, move nimbly on the bikes, they cover their face and attack the trucks. Burn them. "This is urban warfare," shoted the head of the province . "Here is an organization that manages the timing and stages of military attacks on security everyone must be said in clear and distinct way,said Tommaso Sodano, the Provincial Council of the PRC Communist and former senator - that the second landfill site in the Vesuvius National Park will not be." Luigi Cesaro, deputy and president of the province, stutter, speaks of institutional tables and asks the first time to take over the whole cycle management of waste. The President of the Region, StefanoCaldoro, yesterday did a decree of authorizing the transfer of waste at landfills Savignano Irpino (Avellino), Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte (Benevento) and San Tammaro Caserta. They have no submerged. "That is a decision of Caldoro of extraordinary gravity. So you kill our agriculture, "he said a politician fromiBenevento.ta:" We're already we are full of garbage and two thirds is rubbish made in Naples. "
Eight hundred tonnes for road
ALL started two or three years ago, when Naples and the entire Campania were just a long lineof piles of waste. In Naples now there are again 850 tons of garbage on the streets, another 600 are fermenting on compactors. "The situation is of public health concern. Here if you do not tell us where to take waste it will be a real drama,said the Hygiene of the City councilor Paolo Giacomelli. The miracle of the rubbish of Berlusconi and Bertolaso was a miracle of rubbish, as they say in these parts (berlusconi proclame that the problem had been solved just putting the army to take peopel far from the waste disposal and buildin an incinerator...). Just climb right over the railroad said Louis and it is thelandfill of Terzigno to realize this. The smell is awful. The suspicion that this waste will be discharged without too much attention is real when you see down a real river of leachate (the liquid produced by fermentation of garbage) down the road. A trail of black, green, yellow, ill. But you just get two more accounts to understand how, once again after 15 years of receivership, scandals, arrests, camorree1, 2 billions of debts for the Province , Region, and Municipalities (Bertolaso,the minister of emergencies acts now as if they have washed their hands, for he is the emergence over). Landfills? Holes are filled and depleted. Terzigno in early 2011 will be filled. Savignano Irpino (capacity 700000 tont) will be saturated in 3 months. San Tammaro (Caserta) still has 5 months of life, that's it. And in the only burn waste incinerators, of the four planned to Acerra, is a dream. Of its three owens it worked only one and from a few days it was activated a second. The property, according to engineers and independent experts, not right in 18 months breached for more than 250 times the levels of emissions of fine particles.
Institutions play the blame-the proposed solutions do not like anyone anymore