Hot comments on the causes after tragedies are always out of tune. Those concerning the Neapolitan neighborhood of Scampia in these hours refer to the dead and seriously injured. The accident it happened at Vela B, known as Vela Celeste. The balcony collapsed causing a massacre of innocents. Yet work is underway for 18 million euros taken from the "Suburban Plan". Scampia is the symbol of degradation and redemption at the same time. The place that in post-1980 earthquake Naples represented a prototype of environmental and urban regeneration. Naples, wounded in the center, saw thousands of people moving to a new area, where everything would be different: from liveability compared to historical lows, to education, to the economy, to sociality. The desire for redemption of the Neapolitans transferred to 7 Vele designed on European examples took illegal and violent turns which made the fortune of novels, films and fiction. An unfortunate symbol.
Scampia, Mattarella's greeting and the need to hurry
Scampia covers around 200 hectares and is not only inhabited by criminals. There are parks and schools where crime has never entered. There is also an environmental and community vocation that has never stopped seeing a future, so to speak, of pacification intra moenia. The ongoing project recovers the only one of the seven sails that were built. Four were demolished as evidence of an urban planning and political error. Today's money has been allocated to recover common spaces, eliminating useless superstructures. A short time ago a university building was inaugurated. The head of state Sergio Mattarella he came willingly and was greeted warmly by the citizens despite the sign “What does Scampia want, president? All". Tonight's tragedy sends the same message to those who need to do the work quickly.
