The damage done to the property is serious Andria Furnace Centerrecently rearranged and ready to be delivered to the neighborhood.
And instead, we start again from “almost” zero. A community asset vandalized, destroyed and severely damaged without any apparent purpose, but the mayor Giovanna Bruno asks anyone who may have seen it to help the police identify those responsible.
Yesterday morning, Wednesday 27 March 2024, meanwhile the Scientific Police carried out the relevant findings, together with the Local Police and with the support of the Technical Offices.
«A completely devastated and devastating picture before our eyes – comments the councilor to the newspaper Mario Loconte – Seats, doors, electrical cables, lighting fixtures, systems completely demolished. The property was ready to be delivered very shortly, perhaps this didn’t go down well with anyone. We will continue to work so that this center is handed over to the Madonna di Pompei community, to the entire neighborhood, to the city. We will respond to violence with the perseverance of the rebirth action already undertaken.”
The mayor’s stance took a firm stand and he informed the Bat Prefect of the incident Rossana Riflesso, considering the strategic importance of the place from a social and cultural point of view, in a historically problematic and difficult neighborhood in various respects. The concern is that this act of vandalism could be the result of some action aimed at dissuading people from animating that portion of the city.
«The damage is being counted – comments the mayor – There are many and they inevitably affect the entire community, given that the restoration interventions will weigh on the municipal coffers, taking resources away from other initiatives, for example cultural or road maintenance or much else. Forensics are at work. We hope to identify those responsible soon. Whether it was a stunt or a stealth action or something else will be established by the investigations already underway.
If there is any instigator from the neighbourhood, the area or the city who wants to let us know his opposition to the opening of the Community Center as a hub for culture, sociality and sharing, let him put every idea out of his head because it doesn’t impress us at all. Indeed: it leads us to accelerate our intervention even further.
The Fornaci Centre, I remember, was falsely inaugurated years ago without ever having come into operation and was the victim of constant acts of vandalism, and was immediately paid attention to by this administration so that it could be restored, completed, reclaimed and freed from the ongoing litigation.
Everything was ready, even the cleaning was carried out in recent days before delivery to the Parish of the Madonna of Pompeii which will be responsible for animating the management, in synergy with the school and the residents. This profiteering will only delay us a few days. I have given formal instructions to the sectors concerned to provide for the immediate restoration of the places in order to be able to live and occupy them as a city community.
It is the best answer to those who think they will continue to live as if they were in no man’s land.
I repeat the invitation to those who know something to speak to facilitate and speed up the search for the criminals. Do not be afraid”.
The matter will be the subject of Committee for Order and Security of the Prefecture.
