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Since the '80s a union of interests between the Camorra (an organized crime group active mainly in Naples and the surrounding region of Campania), the industrialists and the Neapolitan and Campania political class has poisoned this part of Italy, which is amongst the most beautiful areas in the country. The blogger, Enzo Ciacco, writes on lettera43.it:
I territori colpiti dai veleni di camorra sono quelli tra le province di Napoli e Caserta
L’area è compresa tra i comuni di Qualiano
A firmare il Patto per la Terra dei fuochi
sono stati ben 57 comuni tra Napoli e Caserta
Ma la verità è che nessuno sa quanti e dove siano i rifiuti tossici sepolti nel corso degli anni nell’area
The areas affected by the Camorra's toxic waste are those between the provinces of Naples and Caserta
57 municipalities between Naples and Caserta signed the Land of Fires Pact on July 11
But the truth is that no one knows in how many places and where the toxic waste has been buried in the area over the years
has found more than 2,000 contaminated sites
Enrico Ferdinandi quotes the reformed mafioso, Carmine Schiavone's 1997 declarations made in front of the parliamentary committee on Ecomafias
and whose confessions brought down the Casalesi clan
Avevamo creato un sistema di tipo militare
con ragazzi incensurati muniti di regolare porto d’armi che giravano in macchina
venivano scaricati di notte e le pale meccaniche vi spargevano sopra del terreno
Ma talvolta la spazzatura finiva anche a 20 o a 30 metri di profondità
Nei verbali si può apprendere che alcuni rifiuti radioattivi
per la precisione fanghi nucleari provenienti dalla Germania: «dovrebbero trovarsi in un terreno sul quale ci sono le bufale e su cui non cresce più erba»
with boys with no criminal records and a valid firearms license in the car
police and finance police uniforms and signalling disks
was unloaded at night and the bulldozers would cover it with earth
But sometimes the rubbish ended up 20 or 30 metres deep
The records show that some radioactive waste
from Germany: “should be in a field where there are buffaloes and where the grass does not grow“
The effects on health, above all, are disastrous. The website laretenonperdona.it indicates the illnesses that the population is suffering from:
In questi territori sono stati riscontrati picchi di patologie quali tumori allo stomaco
alla pleura e alla vescica nonché malformazioni e difetti congeniti.
In these areas rates of disease increased such as stomach
pleura and bladder cancers as well as malformations and birth defects
Quoting Gaetano Rivezzi, president of the Italian section of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) [en] in Campania, the website liberainformazione.org published the following:
… in alcuni distretti c’è stato un aumento del 300% di queste malattie in pochissimi anni
L’esempio più eclatante è il distretto di Frattamaggiore
5 comuni con un bacino di 100 mila abitanti: qui i medici hanno registrato 136 casi nel 2008 diventati 420 nel 2012
Poi ci sono i numeri del distretto di Casalnuovo – precisa – qui i codici 048
… in some areas there was a 300% increase in these diseases in just a few years
The most striking example is of the district of Frattamaggiore
containing 5 municipalities with a catchment area of 100,000 inhabitants: here doctors registered 136 cases in 2008 which rose to 420 in 2012
Then there are the figures of the Casalnuovo district – he adds – here the 048 codes
have risen from 384 to 622 in 5 years.
Map of the “terra dei fuochi” taken from “laretenonperdona.it”
Annalisa Tancredi on ambientequotidiano.it, analyses the consequences of this pollution
sono ancora oggi coltivati dai contadini che producono verdure ed ortaggi di ogni genere – come pomodori
e li rivendono nei mercati ad aziende multinazionali per la produzione di passate di pomodori e minestroni surgelati che vengono rivendute non solo in tutta Italia
ad essere contaminati non sono solo i terreni e le falde acquifere
ma anche gli allevamenti che mangiano e bevono i prodotti di questa terra. Un ex allevatore ha denunciato la morte di 2.700 su 3.000 capi di bestiame a causa di malattie
deperimento e malformazioni alla nascita: ha raccontato di veri e propri mostri delle malformazioni genetiche come agnelli con due teste o con la coda sullo stomaco
are still cultivated by farmers who produce all kinds of vegetables and pulses such as tomatoes
and sell them on to markets and multinational companies who produce pasta sauces and frozen soups that are sold not only in Italy but also in Europe and the rest of the world…
not only the land and groundwater have been contaminated
but also the livestock that eats and drinks this land's produce. A former farmer has reported the deaths of 2,700 out of 3,000 head of cattle due to disease
decay and birth defects: he told of real monsters with birth defects like lambs with two heads or with a tail coming out of their stomach
Faced with this situation, the inhabitants of the infected areas have many concerns. In a post Giuliana Caso comments on the people's anger and asks herself:
Photo from the TV investigation by the programme ‘Le Iene’, but if they do not explain clearly we risk reducing all of Campania to the Terra dei Fuochi. Source the movimentopaceambasciatori blog
Perché tutto quello che ha saputo produrre l’ex ministro della sanità Renato Balduzzi è stato un miserabile progetto di studio
Le pecore deformi di Alessandro Cannavacciuolo non sono abbastanza
Le decine di bambini morti non sono abbastanza
Le centinaia di casi di tumore non sono abbastanza
I contadini criminali e ignoranti che hanno irrorato i campi con il mix letale di concime e veleni del nord non sono abbastanza
Che accidenti ancora serve perché si dichiari lo stato emergenza
Why has the former Health Minister Renato Balduzzi only been able to produce a pitiful draft project
Are Alessandro Cannavacciuolo's deformed sheep not enough
Are hundreds of cases of cancer not enough
Are criminal and uneducated farmers who sprayed the fields with a lethal mix of fertilizers and poisons from the north not enough
What else do you need to declare a state of emergency
While letteradonna.it notes that:
L’emergenza ambientale nella Terra dei Fuochi ha provocato un effetto psicosi nella vendita dei prodotti tipici
dalla mozzarella di Bufala Dop all’ortofrutta
Lo dice la Cia-Confederazione italiana agricoltori
sottolineando che nonostante le rassicurazioni di istituzioni e associazioni di categoria
i consumatori continuano a identificare la Campania con quella limitata porzione di territorio regionale devastato da roghi e veleni
L‘effetto-fuga dai prodotti campani può diventare pericoloso per l’economia e l’occupazione
visto che si tratta della terza regione in Italia per produzione agricola con oltre 136 mila aziende e 65 mila addetti
The environmental emergency in the Terra dei Fuochi has caused a psychosis effect in the sale of typical products
The CIA – Italian Farmers Confederation
despite the assurances of institutions and associations
consumers continue to identify the Campania region with that small part of the region ravaged by fires and toxins
Avoiding Campania products can become dangerous for the economy and employment
as it is the third region in Italy for agricultural production with over 136,000 companies and 65,000 employees
Following a letter from Cardinal Sepe and the bishops of the dioceses of the Terra dei Fuochi, the head of state, Giorgio Napolitano, has called on the government to deal firmly with this emergency. The website lettera43.it quotes his letter:
“IL GRIDO DELLE MADRI”. Nella sua lettera
Napolitano ha ricordato “il grido accorato delle madri dei bambini colpiti da gravi patologie tumorali ricondotte al criminale inquinamento dei vostri territori della Campania”
rinnovando “la mia intima partecipazione al loro dolore
confidando che non abbandonino la fiducia nell'impegno delle istituzioni
reso più coeso e credibile anche grazie alla partecipazione attiva della rete di comitati e singoli cittadini che non si contentano di denunciare i crimini subiti
le operazioni di monitoraggio e di bonifica dei siti”.
Napolitano noted “the anguished cry of the mothers of children with serious tumours linked to criminal pollution of areas of Campania
[renewing] my intimate involvement with their grief
trusting that they do not abandon their trust in the commitment of the institutions
made more cohesive and believable thanks to the active participation of the network of committees and individuals who are not content with only denouncing the crimes suffered
but support monitoring operations and site decontamination with their initiatives.”
“Just think, this used to all be Campania” comic strip about the fires in the Terra dei Fuochi by Cecigian
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“Manderemo l'esercito per contrastare le ecomafie”
che i militari se vedono sversamenti abusivi di sostanze nel terreno possono sparare
Che se vedono gente appiccare fuochi all'immondizia possono arrestarli
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“We'll send the army to counter the eco-mafia”
that if the military see people illegally dumping substances in the ground they can shoot
That if they see people set fire to garbage they can arrest them
If that's not what they are here for then leave them in the barracks
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Meglio impiegare questi soldi per carabinieri e polizia e corpo forestale che hanno compiti investigativi
Servivano venti anni fa quando gli sversamenti erano in atto
cosa che può avvenire con indagini per capire chi ha interesse e chi è l'autore dei roghi tossici
Lettore_519922815 JANUARY 2014 | 13.25
It would be better to use this money for the Carabinieri and the police and the forest rangers who have investigative duties
We needed them twenty years ago when the dumping was taking place
which can be done with investigations to find out who is to gain and who is creating the toxic fires
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is known as the “Land of Fires” due to consistent illegal burnings of the dumps to make room for more hazardous waste
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We are in full swing Carnival in Campania and
along with the tasty festivals with typical products
we can also participate in the many feasts carnivals with floats and sweets
We'll have fun with the music and the scheduled shows and even the little ones can't wait to play with the masks and costumed characters
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THE allegorical wagons they are characteristic of Carnival because they represent one of its most typical forms of expression and entertainment
It's about enormous vehicles colorful and decorated
which parade along the streets of the city during the carnival festivities
represent an opportunity for the community to celebrate their culture and have fun together
Floats are often made in a manner crafts with materials such as wood
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