Professor Egidio Sibillo documented his difficulties with the videos that we publish to accompany this article
CASERTA – The retired professor Egidio Sibillo he is a faithful reader of Casertace; he contacted us to tell us about an unfortunate situation in which he is the protagonist and which we will deal with in detail in the next few days.
This fact, he told us, has repeatedly interested the Municipality of Caserta, even going personally to Palazzo Castropignano – despite the difficulties – to be able to have a direct discussion with Mayor Marino.
What we want to deal with today, before delving into the discussion of your problem, concerns the indecent architectural barriers still present, in 2024, in the Caserta town hall, which make it practically impossible for a person in a wheelchair to access the municipal offices.
Professor Egidio Sibillo documented the difficulties with the videos that we publish to accompany this article.
First of all you see the small service lift of the Municipality of Caserta which you cannot enter with a wheelchair. In the municipal headquarters there are also more spacious elevators, but they are not accessible to disabled people due to the presence of architectural barriers, so a person with walking difficulties is forced to wait on the ground floor for the official who follows his practice, but who is rarely free and willing to go down to the ground floor to listen to the complaints or requests of a disabled citizen.
Professor Sibillo says: “There is another elevator located after the main entrance staircase on the right. When I arrive with my electric wheelchair you can’t reach it. Apart from the difficulty of transporting myself by lifting a leg on each step, the electric wheelchair is heavy and a little bulkier, so it doesn’t even fit in this other lift (which is not the one in Via Ruggiero, which is really very small). In short, in order to get to the offices I have to take a van for disabled people, get help to get out and be transported up the ten steps of the ramp to the main entrance, where I have difficulty getting into the lift which is also small, but I manage to get in with a other person because I can’t get out and straighten up on my own.”
