Arzano, municipal housing occupied by squatters.

arzano – Municipal housing occupied by squatters: the municipality of arzano starts the amnesty and the Camorra thanks. The judiciary investigates. Silence, shadows, alleged omissions and a situation bordering on the unbelievable is what is happening in the town north of Naples that has hit the headlines for the constant and pressing presence of the clans.

The houses owned by the Municipality, in via Tavernola, those built with the post-earthquake funds, are said to be occupied by individuals without title or believed to be linked to the Camorra clans that have been calling the shots in the area, benefiting for years from the slow bureaucratic procedures of the institution. And what does the municipality do? The Environment and Heritage sector, through a simple notice published on the public notice board and with an attached form to fill out, is starting the largest amnesty of municipal public housing.

Between the lines of the application, the wording is even included "subentry due to removal" of the real assignee or death. A fully disguised regularization in spite of the many less wealthy citizens who have been looking for a house for decades and are waiting for a public announcement of assignment under penalty of removal of the squatters.

The municipality, also in light of the recent survey carried out, has reportedly found a series of illegal occupants, some without title and also related to big names in the local clan, who have "taken possession" of the members, apparently paying rents of 90 to 50 euros per month and maintenance of the accommodation and internal services paid for by the municipality.

In short, a nice gift in the face of the financial crisis announced by the Aruta majority. But who should be monitoring? Who are the competent assessors and is the mayor Vincenza Aruta likely aware of all this? In Arzano, as we have seen in this last year, the Camorra does pretty much whatever it wants, so much so that a "normal" citizen has difficulty metabolizing this state of affairs as something ordinary and suffer it with the same tranquility as the political bodies, assessors and bureaucrats of the institution seem to suffer it. In the 90s, the former mayor Michele Vitagliano was reached by a provision of the Prosecutor's Office precisely for the failure to supervise illegal occupations.

Louis Vanacore