Naples, the Rocco Jemma nursery school cannot be demolished

“The intervention of the Superintendency, requested several times by the undersigned, would have been enough to obtain the blocking of the demolition of the fascist-era Rocco Jemma nursery school”, declared regional councilor Maria Muscarà.

And then he explained: “We want clarifications and resignations for total irresponsibility, and then to ascertain whether there was also bad faith! We risked losing a historic building of enormous importance, all due to an error by the Municipality, taking for granted that it had been built after 1954, and therefore requesting funds for an unfeasible project.

I therefore ask for the resignation of the statements of the councilor Maura Striano, who had 'threatened' the loss of funds if the demolition was not carried out and then stated the opposite, and of Roberto Marino, president of the II Municipality, who declared that 'the restriction of the Superintendency is obsolete and anachronistic'; therefore the Municipality requested a demolition project without first verifying whether there was a restriction of the Superintendency. In this case, the funds were preferred to the loss of a structure of such importance for the history of Neapolitan architecture of the last century; for those who govern us, memory continues to be of little importance.

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In this regard, who will pay the costs of the wrongly developed demolition project? I hope that we will proceed, therefore, with a request for clarification on the funds and possibly a complaint to the Court of Auditors for this very serious matter!”