New Memorandum of Understanding to Combat Abuse in Protected Areas.
A protocol to support the restoration of legality violated by building abuses perpetrated over time on territories and landscapes, part of contexts of great historical and archaeological value, but also to restore the conditions of decorum of the places, for the protection, conservation and enhancement of the cultural assets that characterize the Vesuvian area.
This is the objective of the Memorandum of Understanding signed yesterday between the General Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the Attorney General of the Republic of Naples, Luigi Riello, the Attorney General of the Republic of Naples, Antonio Gialanella and the Attorney General of Torre Annunziata, Nunzio Fragliasso in order to proceed, in a joint effort, with the judicial demolition of illegal buildings in the areas around the UNESCO site of Pompeii.
The Protocol will allow the Attorney General's Office and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Torre Annunziata to access the Park's funding to proceed with judicial demolition orders and the simultaneous restoration of the sites, imposed by the archaeological and landscape constraint. An intervention that often requires a great economic effort that the Prosecutors are not always able to sustain, with the sole recourse to funding from the Municipalities through the Demolition Fund established at the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
The Protocol follows in the wake of previous agreements already stipulated with the Torre Annunziata Prosecutor's Office in 2019 and then in 2021 aimed at combating the looting and trafficking of looted works of art and archaeological finds, through a timely and mutual exchange of information and a joint inspection activity of archaeological sites subject to clandestine excavations.
“We must be aware that building abuses in areas of cultural interest represent not only an infringement of the law in force, starting with art. 9 of the Constitution which requires us to protect the landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the Nation. – declares the Director of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtrigel – Every building abuse around our cultural sites is also a missed opportunity for cultural, social and economic development of a territory and therefore of a community that lives there. Therefore it is a theme that concerns us all and on which civil society and institutions must be united, so as not to preclude a future for territories characterized by a beauty and a potential unique in the world.”
“This further protocol establishes the fruitful synergy with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in the fight against all forms of illegality. – thus the Public Prosecutor Fragliasso – And it demonstrates that only in a mutual exchange of skills and resources can the Institutions achieve concrete results, not only in safeguarding the national archaeological heritage, but also in restoring the right dignity to the territories and citizens through the restoration of legality and the recognition of the historical and cultural value of the places.”
“In a region where over 64% of the buildings are illegal, the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding between the Attorney General's Office, the Torre Annunziata Prosecutor's Office and the Pompeii Archaeological Park aimed at financing the demolition of the buildings illegally built within the perimeter of the Park – underlines the Attorney General of the Republic at the Court of Appeal of Naples, Luigi Riello – It means having realized a virtuous and important example of institutional synergy that will have the effect of better preserving and improving a territory of extraordinary beauty that constitutes a rare preciousness in the world.”
Article published on 27 January 2023 - 17:25
