NAPLES Illegal construction, illicit management of quarries, state concessions: the grip of illegal cement is growing along the Campania coasts. In 2023, there were 1,531 (+21% compared to 2022) crimes ascertained by the police and port authorities, equal to 14.9% of the national total, with 1,710 people reported (+18.6%), 332 criminal seizures (+18%). Administrative offenses increased slightly, 1,970 (there were 1957 in 2022) and the related sanctions (4,302, +22%). Campania is the main victim of illegal brick and confirms itself at the top of the regional ranking, followed in second place by Puglia (1,442 crimes, 14.1% of the national total), in third place by Sicily (1,180 crimes, 11.5%) and to the fourth la Calabria (1,046 crimes, 10.2% of the total). To report it Legambiente which, on the occasion of the launch of the “Goletta Verde” and “Goletta dei Laghi” 2024 campaignspresents a preview of the dossier data “Mare Monstrum” 2024 dedicated to the illegal cement cycle, collected by law enforcement agencies and port authorities. A plague that is difficult to heal, or in this case to “kill”, especially along the coasts – as civic monitoring explains “Break down the abuse” 2023 of the Green Swan – where illegal construction subject to demolition orders is over 6 times more widespread than in the hinterland. In particular, between 2004 and 2022, in Campania the number of demolitions carried out was 13.1%. (equal to 3,107) of the 23,635 illegal properties for which demolition was established by the 110 Municipalities that responded fully to the civic monitoring promoted by Legambiente. Between 2004 and 2022, the average of demolition orders in the coastal municipalities of Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily, the five regions most affected by the phenomenon, is 64.1 ordinances per municipality, compared to the average of 10.7 ordinances for the inland municipalities
Campania has the “negative” record for the number of ordinances issued in relation to the population: from 2004 to 2022, one case was opened for illegal construction for every 236.6 inhabitants. In light of this, Legambiente returns to ask the Government for immediate responses such as the recognition of the full power of the Prefects to demolish the buildings that are not demolished by the Municipalities and the cancellation in the “Save Home” Decree of the so-called “silence-consent”, which opens up the path to new abuses given that no Municipality will ever be able to examine an amnesty procedure within the established 45 days. «The Campania coasts – comments Francesca Ferro, regional director of Legambiente – are a heritage of inestimable value, rich in history, beauty and biodiversity, but increasingly usurped by wild brick with constructions that privatize beaches or that arise in the middle of river beds or in areas at hydrogeological risk. The preview data of “Mare Monstrum” shows us the urgency of intervening with legislative measures, as we asked the Government and all the political forces with our amendments to the Salvacasa decree, for us a “disguised amnesty”, as we will also reiterate in on board our Green Schooner. At the same time, our Golettes will also be an opportunity to propose and promote various policies and virtuous experiences against the climate crisis and for the protection of marine and lake ecosystems, as well as being strategic for the future of coastal communities, from a social point of view. , economic and employment. To turn the spotlight on the issue of building abuses that disfigure coasts and shores, together with those of poor purification, protection of biodiversity and achievement of the objective of 30% of land and sea protected by 2030, renewables, off-shore wind energy, crisis climate, drought and good practices related to sustainable tourism, will be the historic Legambiente campaigns to monitor the quality of Italian marine and lake waters: “Goletta Verde” 2024, now in its 38th edition and created with the partnership of Anev, Conou, Novamont and Renexia and “Goletta dei Laghi”now in its 19th edition with the partnership of Conou and Novamont. Both with the media partnership of La Nuova Ecologia. Goletta Verde will arrive in Campania on July 12 in Procida and on the 15th in Acciaroli in Cilento. La Goletta del Laghi will arrive on July 22 in Lago D’Averna to report the critical issues and at the same time promote virtuous examples of management and sustainability. The Sos Goletta service by Legambiente is back with the two campaigns to report on the dedicated page anomalous discharges, suspicious stains or pollution along the coasts, beaches and lakes of your territory.
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