Roma Stadium, tile on the Capitoline Hill: a resident’s appeal accepted, excavations stopped

Bad blow for the Campidoglio over the As Roma stadium affair. Two days ago, with an order, the ordinary judge ordered Roma Capitale “to refrain from accessing and/or allowing anyone to access” an area of ​​Via degli Aromi, in Pietralata, made up of four urban planning parcels that fall within the surface affected by the Giallorossi arena project, which the club and the Municipality would like to inaugurate in 2027, for the club’s centenary. These are portions expropriated by the Capitoline administration between 2001 and 2003 but in which – the ordinance reports – the inhabitants were allowed to remain in exchange for the commitment to pay a rent. But more than twenty years have passed and now the “holder” wants to become owner of the land, trying to enforce the adverse possession in court.

Precisely this circumstance convinced the court to order the Municipality to interrupt the geognostic investigations and excavations, necessary to start the construction site of the stadium. Radio Roma Sound anticipated the news, with a post on «X», and shortly afterwards came the jubilation of the committees against the construction of the sports facility. «We learn with satisfaction of the order issued by the civil court, which orders Roma Capitale to stop any “possession disturbance” towards the inhabitants of via degli Aromi – we read in a press release from the “Yes to the park, Yes to the hospital, No to the stadium”, who adds – In fact, the planned survey activities on those areas, which would house a large portion of the stadium building, will not be able to start thanks to this ordinance”.

But the Capitoline councilor for urban planning, Maurizio Veloccia, specifies: «The ordinance has a precautionary nature and refers exclusively to the protection of the possession of the area by the appellants, without expressing any opinion on the question of ownership». Roma Capitale, adds the councillor, «will be able to adopt all the subsequent actions necessary to carry forward the procedure aimed at building the new stadium», while As Roma’s surveys, concludes Veloccia, continue «in other areas that are not affected by the measures in question”.