After years of warnings, back-and-forth complaints on social media, Fedez and Codacons team up to fight a common cause: the health and environmental emergency caused over the years by emissions from the former Ilva of Taranto. The “new beginning” between the two was announced yesterday byAdnkronos. And today, Friday 21 June, the official announcement arrived. «It is disconcerting that in 2024, in a country like Italy, there are scenarios in which one has to choose between the right to work and one’s health. It would be interesting to generate a discussion, also to understand whether part of the Pnrr funds could be allocated to a redevelopment worthy of the name of the former Ilva because to date, in my opinion, the necessary investments have not been made. They also told me about piles of asbestos still there, it’s a dystopian scenario”, the rapper said in Taranto, presenting the joint initiative with the president of the Consumers’ Association Carlo Rienzi. The parties “sat down at a table” with the aim of putting an end to “this dispute which would have led fundamentally to nothing and to seal this peace by trying to shine a spotlight on this problem which needs to be disclosed and have an echo”, continued Fedez.
«Use the media wave of the meeting for a common battle»
Their idea is to try «to use the media wave of the meeting as a vehicle – specifies the singer – by doing a common battle. On the side there is also a donation from me to the pediatric oncohematology department of the Taranto hospital, but it is not part of the project. During Vita Natural we will try to raise the topic as high as possible to ensure that people talk about it.” Today’s conference was attended by mothers of children born with serious genetic problems and Valerio Cecinati, director of the pediatric oncohaematology department named after Nadia Toffa, the correspondent of the program Hyenas, who died in 2019 due to cancer, who took action to support the initiative of the mini bar in the Tamburi district to sell ‘Ie Jesche Pacce Pe Te’ t-shirts which raised 500 thousand euros for the activation of the same department. The president of Codacons also confirmed that the association’s lawyers have presented a request to the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Taranto to obtain the doubling (from five thousand to ten thousand euros) of the provisional compensation recognized in the first instance sentence of the Environment trial sold to the civil parties represented in court by the association.
