News of an announced mugging. The war in Marina del Cantone in Massa Lubrense (Naples)
We receive and publish. We risk a “snatch” of unprecedented severity. What is at risk is the management of our coasts, the work of entire communities who love and protect their territory. What is it about? The victims will be the beach goers. If no one checks, as soon as the contracts expire, they will find other people without titles to occupy their spaces, which they have been managing for a lifetime.
It is already happening in Marina del Cantone, a natural bay in (Nerano) in the province of Naples.
It’s a war between two companies for state-owned space. Nobody checks and nobody takes care of it except the lawyers; in the courts, not even the judges know what to do. For two years, chaos has reigned over a threat that will bring entire families to their knees, entire communities that will lose their jobs.
Our beautiful Italy is rich in coasts; even the treasure of its splendid sea risks being plundered.
It is the most envied “boot” in the middle of the Mediterranean in the world.
And it does not console us to know that for Borkestain our coasts can be managed by anyone who illegally occupies the area. And this was before the alleged race.
Let’s imagine the future scenario: on the Italian coasts, a French factory, next to another Spanish one, and another German one. And so on. With locals forced to work for managers from who knows where. At the mercy of the first comer, at the mercy of the richest multinational. And this is only because the State and previously those who governed us were not able to bring the rights of seaside workers into discussion at the European table.
With the expiry of the Concessions, on 31 December 2024 all beach resorts should at least have the certainty that the place and area occupied at their own expense up to now may not be occupied illegally as is already happening in some areas. They call it “possession”.
It is incredible that dishonesty is so protected, in fact, and injustice enjoys such great impunity.
Specifically in the case of Marina del Cantone, those who do not have documents certifying the presence of a company and a contract faced with an abusive “possession”
it has no force and value, except that which it has to argue in the courts at its own expense. At their own expense the beachgoers are defending state assets even though they know they will go away. It’s called civic sense and they have demonstrated in more than thirty years of management that they have always exercised it.
And often in these places the judges, relying on civil rules, do not take into account the real interests at stake.
The beach workers are now waiting for answers and certainties from the new Government, in which they have placed full trust. Before it’s too late.
The management of the seaside resort must be guaranteed to Italian families;
it is necessary that the state-owned places that will go to tender
are not dressed and controlled by the Municipalities, where clientelism, vote-exchanging and conflict of interests already reign supreme. And they reveal themselves in provisions that contradict justice, and ignore state contracts and regulations.
“There are rules, but who enforces them?” wrote Alessandro Manzoni in the nineteenth century.
In Italy, it is still like this; everyone does as they like. But an alternative is still possible.
The State guarantees the areas at risk by appointing a sub-commissioner capable of supervising the areas area by area, which must not be left to the discretion of the Municipalities or Harbor Offices which confuse the articles of the navigation code and which cannot guarantee their own control of other organs.
Only in this way, perhaps an announced catastrophe can be avoided.
Ignorance regarding state property will lead the clever and cunning to impose structural changes in areas which are now freely accessible to citizens for six months of the year. With the so-called “possession”, the areas will instead be fenced off and thus closed to anyone, except coastal and sea “snatchers”. Common good, treasure that should be protected, and instead has never been so at risk. We expect sanctions to be issued that will weigh on the crafty people next door. If you’re not there I’ll take your place, then we’ll see who sends me away. These words are enough for the good connoisseur.
