AND mouse alarm in Catania. An infestation around the accommodations of social housing of course Independence, rats that they come out of the cracks in a wall And they carry remnants of waste bags long Via Stella Polare and reports of similar scenes arriving from various streets and squares in the area Old Town of the Etna capital. A situation that worries residents and unions who ask for immediate interventions from the municipal administration. «We are aware of the situation – responds to MeridioNews the Environment Councilor Except Tomarchio – and we have already intervened by planning cyclical interventions to try to resolve it.”
It was in February the councilor of the first municipality of Catania Giuseppe Buglio to raise the issue after having collected the complaints from several citizens of the historic center. Now here comes complaint of Suniathe tenants’ union: «For mouse infestation near the accommodation in social housing at number 146 of Corso Indipendenza we ask the Municipality immediate rodent control and then also periodic cleaning of green spaces around the buildings”, the regional and provincial secretaries of the Sunia, Giusi Milazzo And Agata Pappalardowho have already started collecting signatures among residents of the area and written to mayor of Catania Enrico Trantino to inform him of the situation.
“TO raise the alarm – the trade unionists underline – it was the housing assignees worry about the health risk of all the inhabitants”, especially for those who live in houses on the ground floor who are more easily exposed to the danger of invasion by the mice that already populate the flowerbeds and green areas around the buildings. «A risk which, at the moment – add the two trade unionists – concerns above all the playground next door which is frequented by many children and young people in the area». Which is not the only one where rats have become unwanted guests that create situations that become increasingly unsustainable.
Reports of the same type had also arrived from the historic center of Catania: popular Stella street, via Toledo, Via Moncada, Lighthouse street, via Syracuse, via del Principe they would be those where the presence of rodents has already been reported by residents which, in some cases, have also filmed and published several videos on social media. A few meters from the new cycle path, to try to remedy the situation, someone has «placed some poison – we read in a post on the Facebook page Waterfront freed – but there is the risk of generating other problems: a little girl had picked it up with serious risks to your health». In short, a solution is necessary and also rather urgent. But it cannot come from the initiatives of individuals who risk being harmful in other ways.
«We are already working on it decisive disinfestation and rodent control interventions – assures councilor Tomarchio a MeridioNews – But it is clear that where they come from throw away bags of rubbish every day and at every hour, sometimes even by residents of the area, they are created situations in which mice proliferate and sanitation problems». So in addition towaste emergency that the city already knows well, we could soon find ourselves in front of thesanitary emergency due to the presence of rats. «The Municipality, which could leave the waste where it comes from abandoned for incorrect conferment, it nevertheless continuously removes the micro landfills – adds the member of the council – To those who commit these acts of incivilityHowever, we need to make it clear that they are ruining the places they live in. We hope – concludes councilor Tomarchio – that people understand this and that they reverse course together with us».
