Another Sunday of blood and death along State Road 106, yet another accident involving a 24-year-old “centaur” who lost his life near Cropani.
This is yet another tragic event involving an arterial road sadly known as the road of death, a name that is based on numbers. In fact, there have been 205 victims in the last 10 years. Figures that make you shudder and that impose the need to modernize an important artery that connects Reggio Calabria with Taranto.
An investment of 1.3 billion euros is currently underway (Third Megalot) which serves to complete the stretch between Roseto and Sibari, while work is awaited on the segment between Sibari, Corigliano and Rossano and the one between between Crotone and Catanzaro for a cost of 3.5 billion euros. Significant amounts that attracted the appetites of the ‘ndrangheta ready to profit from contracts with works built at a low cost and therefore with greater structural risks.
In this regard LThe “Bellu lavuru” investigation by the Reggio DDA, born following the collapse of the Sant’Antonino tunnel in Palizzi, is aimed at ascertaining the possible infiltrations of the ‘Ndrangheta families Morabito-Bruzzaniti-Palamara, and Maisano, Rodà, Vadalà and Talia. Even the deputy of Fratelli d’Italia, Wanda Ferro, years ago turned the light on to possible infiltrations of organized crime through a parliamentary question in which she asked for clarity on the criminal episodes that took place in the Sibaritide.
The “106”, therefore, is an emblem of the difficulties in which Calabria lives today, compared to the gods work that can no longer be postponed and is absolutely necessary for a very useful artery that must be made safe as soon as possible.
