Castellammare, the access commission remains another 3 months

Castellammare di Stabia. Three more months of work for the Access Commission called to verify the possible presence of infiltration in the administrative machine of the municipality.

The three-month extension of the deadline for carrying out the investigations arrived this morning, a few days early. Commission of Inquiry at the Municipality of Castellammare di Stabia, charged with verifying the existence of infiltration attempts and/or connections of organised crime within the administration of the aforementioned Municipality.

The extension should have arrived on August 26, exactly three months after that May 26, the day in which the triad knocked on the door of Mayor Gaetano Cimmino in a climate of embarrassment mixed with disbelief. It was a Wednesday morning and the deputy prefect of the Neapolitan Prefecture, Enrico Gullotti; the captain Ivan Iannucci, commander of the Sorrento Carabinieri company; the captain Jade Patriarch, the economic-financial police unit of the Naples financial police, presented themselves at Palazzo Farnese and began their investigative activity.

The Ministry inspectors carried out a wide-ranging investigation, starting from the 2018 election in Castellammare, requesting the electoral office for the lists of candidates and the results of the section-by-section ballots. One of the first files examined by the 007 of the Viminale. Much attention has been paid to the relatives of some municipal councillors, both from the majority and the opposition, an attention paid by the Ministry of the Interior even before the establishment of the Access Commission.

And not only that, the spotlight is on personnel management, in the waste procurement, hiring through public competitions and the Public Works sector with sub-threshold assignments to recurring companies. In fact, since the inspectors took office, there has been a rotation of Palazzo Farnese's regular suppliers.

However, the commission has the power to access only the current city council. Compared to previous administrations, it can still communicate any news of crime to the competent Prosecutor's Office.

CAUSES FOR DISSOLUTION: THE CASE STUDIES

There are many. One of the most frequent causes of dissolution, even if they are often not indicated as the only reason for the measure, are the ties, acquaintances and relatives of local administrators with individuals belonging to organised crime. This type of relationship is considered an indicator of the high conditionability of the institution. There are many examples, such as the dissolution of San Luca (RC) in 2000, motivated, among other things, also on the «… significant participation of municipal administrators and employees at the funeral ceremony of a well-known criminal».
In the case of Castellammare, from what emerges from the first checks, there are several municipal councilors related to criminals.

Another cause for dissolution may be represented by mafia conditioning of the vote. In this regard, in addition to cases of electoral campaigns conducted by means of threats, intimidation or by exerting strong pressure on both opposing lists and voters, episodes in which unjustified shifts of large quantities of votes are recorded between the first round and the run-off, as a result of changes in alliances or the making of new agreements regarding the division of the departments are also taken into consideration. In the case of Castellammare di Stabia, there are reports of intimidation during the electoral campaign and in the run-off.

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There is a risk of dissolution not only for political conduct, but also for the behavior of the institution's officials and any administrative irregularities. Of particular importance are the procedures in the urban planning sector, which has always been attractive to the Camorra for obtaining licenses and especially the management of construction work, through which the clans are able to impose companies, labor and supplies. In addition to the urban planning sector, there are others in which administrative irregularities are evident, even blatantly. Just think of the assignment of security services or custodian duties, the provision of contributions for demonstrations and events promoted by individuals close to mafia groups.

WHAT DO CASTELLAMMARE CITY COUNCILLORS RISK?

But the most frequently asked question is the following: what do the city councilors risk in the event of dissolution due to mafia infiltration? According to paragraph 11 of article 143 of the Tuel, «the administrators responsible for the conduct that gave rise to the dissolution referred to in this article cannot be candidates for elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate of the Republic and the European Parliament, as well as for regional, provincial, municipal and district elections, in relation to the two electoral rounds following the dissolution itself, if their ineligibility is declared with a definitive provision».

So, not all the city councilors, but only those who will be subject to a prescription by the prefect. In any case, they will remain stuck in the pits for two electoral rounds. (Emidav)