Napoli. “Memories of a lifetime have been torn from us, such as photos of Aunt Carlotta's mother and father, of a family with many siblings, quite well-known in the Avellino area, and, above all, her books, the great friends of a literature teacher. The pain is great”.
Marisa, granddaughter of Carlotta, the 90 year old teacher who found herself evicted from one day to the next after leaving her Neapolitan apartment in via Egiziaca 35, is saddened. Pizzofalcone, for health checks. His house is located behind Piazza del Plebiscito.
She has practically spent her entire life there. Carlotta, in fact, is Irpinia by birth but Neapolitan by adoption. In the shadow of Vesuvius she has lived, studied (she has a degree in literature and philosophy) and worked as a teacher. She has never married but has always been very close to her family and especially to her niece who does not have the courage to tell her the truth.
Yesterday, the NAPLES Municipal Police, after the checks, walled up the apartment vacated by the squatters, to avoid the risk of further illegal occupations. The apartment was seized as part of an investigation by the “Environment, Construction and Urban Planning” section of the NAPLES Public Prosecutor's Office (coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Pierpaolo Filippelli) which does not only concern the illegal occupations of Pizzofalcone but also those that occurred in other neighborhoods of NAPLES and even in the province.
“There was also a set of very valuable crystal glasses,” Marisa continues, “which, I believe, were stolen. Aunt was at our house, in Montoro, when the first family broke into her house. We immediately filed a complaint. We would like to at least recover the plates. Apparently, they left them to us.”
The woman is convinced that the house will never return to her aunt, even though she holds it dear: “She always told me and still tells me – she underlines – 'I have to keep that house until the last day, I want it for as long as I live'.
But now I see it as really difficult”. “We would like it to end up in the hands of deserving people – he adds – but there are no rankings and therefore the assignment is practically impossible”. The phenomenon of illegal occupations also concerns other families in the Pizzofalcone area, as well as other locations in the city.
One of these is the Traiano district, between the Fuorigrotta, Soccavo and Pianura neighborhoods. There, the regional councilor of Campania Francesco Emilio Borrelli reports, “the Camorra has taken over the basements. I would like to know why no action is taken? In those premises that have become off-limits to the legitimate owners, the clans put pitbulls there for dog fights or transform them into homes to assign to their acolytes”.
"We can no longer accept the strabismus of our institutions - says Borrelli - if the bodies are non-compliant, then it is right that they be placed under special administration. The municipalities where the highest number of illegal occupations is recorded - he concludes - are those where the rankings are missing or, as is the case in NAPLES, where they have not been updated for about ten years".
Article published on May 11, 2022 - 19:22 pm
