"The intervention of the Superintendency, which I, too, have repeatedly requested, would have been enough to block the demolition of the Fascist-era Rocco Jemma nursery school," declared regional councilor Maria Muscarà.
And then he explained: "We demand clarification and resignation for total irresponsibility, and then determine whether there was also bad faith! We risked losing a historic building of enormous importance, all due to a mistake by the Municipality, which assumed it was built after 1954, and therefore requested funding 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and of Roberto Marino, president of the II Municipality, who declared that 'the restriction of the Superintendency is obsolete and anachronistic'; therefore the Municipality requested a demolition project without first verifying whether there was a restriction of the Superintendency.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.
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!”
