Antonio Politano received me at his home in Paola in Viale dei Giardini. Outside, in the small courtyard in front of the entrance of the house, the daughter Chicca prepare a feast of her sixteenth birthday. The courtyard is full of purple balloons and soon will be flooded with about fifty friends and friends of the birthday girl. Antonella is taken from the preparations of the festival and everyone from her husband Massimo, Chicca daughter to turn her to the emergence of any small problem. Antonella always has a ready smile. Not a mask, but a true smile. After his tragic, devastating and impressive in its sequence, lives only for her two children. A tragedy that would upset anyone's life, but she is living with power to give sent to the last words of his father. A promise.
"Promise, Antonella," said the father on his death-promise to move forward in this battle and give justice to all of us. " A justice who for ten years, Antonella look at all costs. A justice is blindfolded, not to give due weight to a sentence, but he will not look the part of Antony, although they hear, in a 'classroom of the Court of Paola names of the mother, father, aunt and her three sisters, Gabriella, Anna, Patrizia. Antonella
seeks justice for these names, for these people, one after the other died for a terrible cancer that has ravaged their bodies to destroy them After untold suffering.
Memories of Anton, the lead away. A, as a young mum the servants to prepare to go to school. The family was happy with his life. His father, Vincent, worked as a janitor in the nearby "Farm status for telephone services" (later Iritel and again one of the Italian Telecom and hours), the same that had given them a huge house in this block along with other employees . Vincent did not know what life was preparing. The air around the house was smelly, but then it seemed normal. "He knew of rotten eggs, recalls Antonella. And when the mother opened the window of his bedroom, right by the building of the horrors, only 5 meters away from their home, they invaded the rooms stink, to force it to immediately close all. Antonella's parents thought they were stink "normal" work produced by the turbines. Not the slightest thought that all those smells would produce death and destruction in their house in their block and then slowly around the neighborhood on that avenue of the Gardens. "I counted over 150 - I-Antonella says of these deaths. I have the names of family members, the names of the deceased, their suffering. Everything written in this notebook, "- that guards like the last holy book. No one could know what was coming out of the telephone exchange, but the leaders company, they would have had to know. The call center producing poisons which were held almost hidden around the perimeter of the unit. In the battery room at the center of device, in some stores that still exist behind the building, even in a trap door just inside the courtyard where now the small grain, happily preparing for his sixteen years of receiving it. A trap door evil, which were stored in long cables, batteries full of poisons, from which, together with those in the hall batteries, gases are released metifici that would kill the whole family and produced tumors in the surrounding area the same building . Antonella recalls disturbing details of their existence close to these poisons. Details like a huge puzzle that then, after the sequence of deaths, has been put together to produce the many complaints to the Prosecutor of Paola. One day in 1997 the whole family had to move away from Paola to follow her father in an affair. At the last moment one of the sisters has the flu and Antonio decide to stay at home to assist. Nothing in particular, are things that happen in the life of a family. But someone knew that that night the house would remain empty Politano. And the night that night, something moved around the unit. Antonella was awakened by the noise of trucks and people were busy doing something inside the nearby building phones. Noises of things moving on large trucks, noise irons, engine noise. Antonella looks out of his bedroom and saw the men with white suits, masks on the face, hands covered with huge gloves. Antonella unwittingly witnessed the dismantling of the unit. It was in 1992. A unit that obviously, its officers, knew that pollutes and poisons produced and cancer. The Attorney Paul after the allegations and will open an investigation and finally died Nov. 30 of 2007 came the trial for two leaders of the unit. The charges from the investigation opened by the Prosecutor Dr. D'Emmanuele are very serious. In the process the two leaders will be declared not guilty and they will be the case dismissed, but the environmental damage produced by everything that was inside the unit was recognized, and this will allow a civil suit pending against the institution of the phone now owned Italian post office.
investigation it turned out that there were well within the control unit 226 of lead batteries subjected to daily maintenance. Since these batteries are released harmful toxic substances such as lead sulfate will become even more dangerous under the action of sulfuric acid-substances classified by IARC-human carcinogen, Group 1, and toxic fumes from selenium rectifiers. In particular , Is written in the indictment, as the room without a battery hoods of these substances is near the springs and is another point in the same room to allow gas which spread both inside and outside through a window, ventilation grille positioned horizontally and in correspondence and in front of the bedroom window of the political family of Vincent. That grid, remember Antonella was discharged before the unit was much longer than what you see now, and the vapors that came out were clearly visible. The investigation of the prosecutors are out other serious shortcomings. Is a very serious one that was not built in the battery room a Faraday cage that would protect the external electromagnetic waves by building a strong shield, the other that no action was taken to rehabilitate the buildings by type of material containing chrysotile asbestos.
The first to die from these poisons is mother Natalina. E '1984. Antonella is the eldest daughter. It must be her now to take care of the rest of the family. The father and three little sisters. An aunt will help, acting as a mother and for all. The life of Antonio, his adolescence, he began an uphill struggle and in full solitude. But slowly the life he also manages to give some surprises, to balance things, to make even forget bad things, even though in my heart the wounds are never healed. Antonella fight and always puts things in place. But 1998 Gabriella was taken ill with ovarian cancer. Cancer terrible, devastating Aug. 6 of that year he kills her. Gabriella is only 39 years. He did not have no time to realize what was happening around her. Antonella is back in the center of everyone's life. And 'she who must once again take up the threads of the family, when on 8 December of that year the second sister, Anna, becomes ill and dies. She, too, the same malignant tumor of the ovary. It's not over. Antonio with tears in his eyes and photos of his family says these terrible times and sequences. In January 1999, Vincent's father falls ill. He was admitted to Rome. Start the die terrible treatment and chemotherapy, also in 2000 when Patrick, the third sister Antonella gets sick and dies. In the following years the father will die Bernardina Vincent and aunt. A series of funerals, all starting at 2 Avenue of the Gardens, which have increasingly seen the shrinking participation of family members. Now we promise to keep. The promise made to his father, Vincenzo Antonio and thanks to the great help of the lawyer Sabrina Paola Mannarino hole is sure to be able to maintain. A battle that has become part of his life and brought notoriety to a certain desired, but forced to say the truth and how much more there is a danger in our cities and our countries. A truth that many would like to keep hidden. Antonella in this battle has always been held on the sidelines. "No party has helped me" - he says with dismay. "Every so often a politician brings out the articles on my case, but they seem more related to the search of votes that the search for truth."
a truth that few want to know. Certainly not the city that is not a civil, and who has never lifted a finger to push it turned out that what actually has happened around the damn controller. The only association in a civil action was the Legambiente through the lawyer. Rodolfo Ambrosio. Even the ASL did something. Antony calls for an epidemiological investigation for years throughout the district. An investigation as she has done, house to house, landing to landing. For example, in front of the house of Antonio, in the Gardens, there are the Dominican Sisters. It 's a beautiful nineteenth century building with a beautiful garden around it. Although the sisters have been affected by the vapors and the waves of the controller. A sister died a few years ago, another is ill and undergoing chemotherapy to Paul himself. Ironically people. Paola chemotherapy there is a single center of the Tyrrhenian coast and the second in the province of Cosenza. Physicians Paola therefore well known what is happening not only to Paul but in the whole district. Many of them screaming in the silence. As Dr. De Matteis, but paradoxically it is the people to be afraid to speak, to tell what are suffering, as if it were their fault.
"I accept the will of God," says Anton, "but not that of men, and to what strength I will fight to ensure a future for my children as well and all those who live in this city."
E 'on the same line of battle Dr. De Matteis. It 'good to read what he writes.
"know after years of being right about what myself and others argue, that the presence in the marine and land nuisances and sources of pollution and a significant incidence of malignant diseases in our area, is a small consolation.
As a family doctor in the years I've noticed a growth of various cancers among my clients, which was and is a warning signal that something had changed. Having raised these issues on occasions of public debates on local television station, or in the local press are of little use. In recent years I have seen die young and elderly patients with a diagnosis of cancer, today it seems that finally something is moving with regard to marine pollution, what remains to be done for the rest of us? Given the multiplicity of tumors present, it is scientifically difficult to attribute the cause to a single source of pollution, of course any radioactive waste could justify the variety of diseases. From a brief examination of the data, which previously to news, we started with our colleagues on the incidence of cancer among our clients, we infer a significant presence of breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men, but strangely enough, these diseases are present in relatively young people next to them the presence of colon tumors, but also some brain tumor. Today, as physicians we are not able to scientifically proving the increase of these diseases, such as family doctors observe and participate
the dramas of the many families who live with these realities of the enormous difficulties of a health care which fails to give adequate support and sufficient in such situations. If it was proven the correlation between the many deaths from cancer and environmental pollution, who will pay ever
the loss of many lives. It would be desirable that the region would invest, getting a hearing from
part of all physicians and paediatricians of the Tyrrhenian checking any possible connection between cancer, territorial, lifestyle and any other parameters necessary for a proper mapping of the Territory " .
these heavy words of dr. De Matteis, written in 2009, during the explosion of ships of the poisons, then hidden by the Government, the Minister Prestigiacomo and reassured by the mayors and tourism entrepreneurs, and that put together the case of family policies provide a sense of the seriousness of things. Remains the usual bitter taste in the mouth and the usual questions, including journalists and seekers of truth always say to the public, because the policy does not deal with these things, because ASL is not a serious investigation on the whole, why not it operates the cancer registry, because there are serious monitoring on all the territories to research and identify all sources of pollution such as fly tipping and electromagnetic fields, sewage, use of products chemicals in crops, reclamation of polluted sites such as zinc ferrite by cassanese, Praia a Mare poisons produced by Marlane, and of course a serious and thorough search of the sunken ships of the poisons in our seas.
Francesco Cirillo
