Vincenzo De Luca doesn't mince his words and, in his usual Friday Facebook live, launches a harsh attack on the management of the Bagnoli project linked to the America's Cup. For the former president of the Campania Region, the real scandal is not the Strait of Messina Bridge, but what is happening in Naples, in a context he unhesitatingly defines as "totally illegal."
According to De Luca, despite the Region's exclusion from organizing the event, behind-the-scenes work continued for months to safeguard an event that could have represented an extraordinary opportunity for economic and tourism development. Critical issues and corrective proposals, he maintains, had already been highlighted last year, with the aim of avoiding problems that would jeopardize the entire competition. However, many of the concerns raised by both the Region and the Anti-Corruption Authority have reportedly not received adequate responses.
In his speech, De Luca openly speaks of an opaque, lacking transparency, even evoking scenarios of closed and self-referential power. He demands an explanation for the failure to publish documents, the lack of truthful renderings of the planned works, and the silence regarding technical objections raised over time. In his opinion, the public has a right to know what is actually being planned and what procedures are being followed.
The key issue remains the permits and environmental assessments. De Luca questions whether the project was validated by a third-party authority and emphasizes that, given a body of water exceeding legal limits and significant infrastructure, an environmental impact assessment would be mandatory. According to the former governor, this requirement has not been met, despite the Ministry of Cultural Heritage also confirming its necessity.
Hence the request for a City Council meeting to be held directly in Bagnoli, open and entirely dedicated to the project, to explain to residents what is really happening, making all the documentation public, from the opinions received to the final designs. Time, De Luca warns, is running out, and there is a risk of no longer being able to intervene to restore order, ensuring swift but fully legal procedures. This warning sounds like a political and institutional ultimatum.
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I read the article and I have to say there's a lot I don't understand. De Luca is right to ask for clarity on everything, but we'll have to see if anything concrete will be done. The criticisms are valid, but solutions are lacking.