There are 133 municipalities in Calabria that have received confiscated real estate (in total there are 1870 goods allocated), of these 67 are those who do not publish the list on their website, as required by law, equal to 50% of the total, while 66 are those who publish information on the confiscated assets destined for them. This is what emerges from the third national report on the state of transparency of confiscated assets in local administrations, created by Libera in collaboration with the Abele Group and the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin and with the contribution of Istat, presented at the Trame13 festival in Lamezia Terme (Cz).
The negative record goes to the municipalities of the Province of Vibo Valentia where out of 20 municipalities receiving confiscated assets, 13 do not publish the list; the photograph is no better for the municipalities of the Province of Crotone where out of 11 municipalities there are 6 that do not publish the list, followed by the Province of Cosenza with 7 municipalities out of a total of 19 and the Province of Reggio Calabria with 33 municipalities out of the 67 recipients of goods confiscated. For those in the province of Catanzaro, out of 16 municipalities, half are in default. In general, the negative record in terms of absolute transparency goes to the municipalities of Southern Italy (including the islands) with 248 municipalities that do not publish the list. Northern Italy follows with 87 municipalities and the Center with 51. At the level of individual regions, among the most “virtuous” – that is, those which reach or exceed 70% of the municipalities that publish the list – are Liguria (87, 5%), Emilia Romagna (84.4%), Puglia (79.8%) and Piedmont (78.2%).
Among those postponed with a percentage below 50%, Basilicata, Calabria, Lazio and Molise. Specifically, it should be noted that even the 4 regions stuck with 0 municipalities complying in 2022 (Basilicata, Molise, Trentino and Valle d’Aosta) recorded a leap forward in 2023. Overall, the data improves in all regions, with significant peaks, considering the regional weight, for Campania, Piedmont and Liguria. Calabria slowly rises from 18.8% to 49.8%. The same goes for Sicily, where, compared to 29.9% in 2022, in 2023 it reached 56.5%.
«In any case, it is good to remember – underline the authors of the study – that these considerations must be read with the utmost caution, given the significant number of confiscated properties that local authorities in these regions are called upon to manage. There are three provinces that have been assigned confiscated assets that do not publish the list: Crotone, Matera and Messina, while Calabria and Lazio, among the regions monitored, are the only ones that do not publish anything”.
