There was no time to clean it up so that work could finally begin to demolish it, which was once again filled with waste which was set on fire today. A fire occurred around 2pm inside the eco-monster in Via Tiro a Segno, an illegal property confiscated from the mafia which has been in a state of total abandonment for decades. After reports from residents and the nearby AMG headquarters, the firefighters arrived and took several hours to put out the fire in which piles of waste piled up in what has now become a landfill were burned.
After years of inertia, or almost so, the Lagalla administration had undertaken to redevelop the area by removing waste, demolishing the eco-monster and naming the road after Biagio Conte. In April 2024, as announced by the Urban Planning Councilor Maurizio Carta, it was the sole person responsible for the procedure has been appointed and the choice fell on an engineer from Coime. The municipal workers, after the first waste removal interventions by Rap, had carried out safety works by fencing off some areas and closing various accesses and stairways.
Last February theThe property was subject to reclamation by Rapwhich lasted a week and cost an extra 12 thousand euros, at the end of which almost thirty tons of material were taken away, including bulky waste, construction waste and unsorted waste. During the operations, numerous sheets of Eternit also came to light, which required the use of a specialized company appointed by the Municipality for their removal. Over the months, between one passage and another BUT especially after the Bampe di San Giuseppe, the eyesore – which also has several underground floors that are suspected to be full of waste – has returned to being a landfill that today, due to the fire, has released dioxins that have invaded the neighborhood.
What has been done so far would not have been enough and other asbestos sheets have appeared in the building which will make it necessary for another intervention by the company appointed by the Municipality which, according to internal sources at Palazzo delle Aquile, has already received the order and before going into action it will have to communicate the details of the activity to be carried out. This means that, once the area has been cleaned again and the asbestos removed, the Administration will find itself, despite its efforts, at the end of the line and will have to reprogram a plan that includes all the works to be carried out in rapid sequence to prevent the ‘ecommonster will fall into oblivion for another few years.
“We are finding the resources for the characterization of the area – declares the councilor Carta to PalermoToday – and for the subsequent disposal of special waste. Then once the reclamation is completed, which will take around 3 months, Coime will be ready to demolish the property.”
