Italy. Naples-Constanza: cruises smelly, Courrier International, 20/01/11 Tommaso
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A large orchestra illegal traffic of waste by the Neapolitan mafia is poised to make Romania the biggest landfill in Europe .
The monster woke. "Ochiul Boului" (The bull's eye), the de-chetterie the most repulsive of Romania, woke up the day went for Naples, once again, overwhelmed by mountains of garbage. The spectrum of peril Italian - these containers of waste from Campania [province of which Naples is the capital] sent by the Camorra [Neapolitan mafia] - haunts the Romanian town of Glina. Despite the declarations the Berlusconi government, which promised to disposing of these stinking piles them located in different regions, Romanians fear that discharging cargo full of rubbish, because the financial stakes are enormous. And formal contracts with waste disposal companies in northern Italy report obviously less money to the Italian Mafia as toxic these cruises.
This is not the first time that freighters unload the waste illegally in Romania promised has other destinations. It would also not the first time an operation apparently lawful conduct is concealing Mafiosi. Anyway, they hardly come in Romania that Waste volatilize. In reality they are buried under "groapa" as people call them Romanians, "pits" monstrous or accumulate garbage rotting for several decades. They extend over tens of hectares, polluting the whole countryside.
The filth of Bucharest, layer after layer, were gathered together today to reach the point size of the hills surrounding the south-east of the Romanian capital engulf and Glina. Its inhabitants exude a stench since 1976, since the former communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu has decided to pile garbage Glina Bucharest. A multitude of tips, legal and illegal, similar to that of Glina have developed in the south. And it is the Italians who run the screens Romanian companies refuse treatment. A new phenomenon
alarm Interpol: Romania proliferation of a multitude of agencies handling waste from Campania. Everything leads to believe that the "new" discharge of Naples is currently building there. The project began three years ago, when this sector was led by former associate of Vito Ciancimino [mayor of Palermo in the 1970s, died in 2002, he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for corruption and association Mafia] who had awards expansion of Glina, the incinerator in Ploiesti [60 km from Bucharest] and has some big dump Mures [center of Transylvania] and Baicoi [Wallachia]. At that time, investigators in Palermo prosecutors had succeeded in crossing the borders and block transactions: the former associates of the former mayor of Palermo were forced to liquidate all the companies and disappear into the limbo of Romanian law . But two years ago, the clan of the Italians decided to launch a modernization plan for a "Ochiul Boului" the biggest landfill in Europe.
With money from the EU
Meanwhile, many tentacles of the companies Pileri brothers of [former associate of Vito Ciancimino] are still rampant in Bucharest: in the garbage, real estate, fashion. The police know. She knows that some companies have changed names, others now belong to strangers and others to the Italians. These companies are immersed in an ocean consists of a hundred companies refuse treatment. Everyone knows each other. "Officially, there is no investigation at this time on the trafficking of Italian waste in Romania," explained the police. Yet, "off", they confirm that the alarm has already been learned.
Newspapers Romanian speak of "caracati" Italian octopus, the network of companies which share the new waste sector of the economy and green economy wind turbine in the country. Effect of increased controls on the southern border, at least ten Italian bigwigs were arrested last five years. At the same time, the number of Italian companies responding to calls for tenders for the creation of new landfill in triplicate.
The Italians are not the only ones to have sniffed it rich. Chinese mafia reign in the south, while the Russians have settled on the border with Moldova: they recycle toxic waste in the Republics of the former Union Soviet. But the Italian Mafia is still the most powerful. It was she who controls the north-west, Bucharest and its region, and throughout the south, up the Black Sea. And it is settled in the area longer.
For Italians, the wastes have nothing repugnant. Instead, they clean. They clean dirty money and exploit public funds -
the European Union is funding generously modernization projects of the Romanian system of waste disposal . And then the waste fill the accounts of the underworld. Finally, the state of emergency in Naples seems a goose that lays golden eggs. The government pays Brussels pays, everybody pays.
If companies sign contracts with Italian companies refuse treatment, they also know that the Camorra may disappear such waste for two or three times cheaper, mixing has other it would be unthinkable to elapse Italy.
This is not science fiction. This is the reality of the Black Sea. Since the entry of Romania into the European Union [1 January 2007] and while organized crime has seized the "green sector", it is a more fruitful walk than the drug . "With a double advantage: investments are zero, and it is possible to recycle torrents of dirty money in a country of the European Union. And the re-circulation ", says it was Interpol. Not only the waste that may be transferred to Romania, but the heart of the market. Garbage containers arrive by sea. After having crossed the Straits of the Dardanelles, they pass easily through the meshes of the borders, from the port of Constanta or Odessa and those Illichivsk, Ukraine.
Fake names, fake companies
An engineer Lombard has tried last year to penetrate the world's landfills. "That's how it works: Companies Romanian actually held by organized crime, get permission from municipalities to create landfills, "says he's Espresso. Recycling facilities and will soon see the day Cumpana. Others will have Traian near Tulcea.
"They should theoretically be used for urban waste and those of neighboring businesses. In fact, it does not happen like that. It's so rudimentary that, in most cases there is not even any trash cans. The municipality pays, but the vast majority of the garbage ends up in the hundreds of illegal dumps that have sprung up everywhere. short, companies official waste disposal, who have received permission to create the official dump, end up with millions of cubic meters to fill gaps with what they want. "
few weeks ago, the brigade's defense environment s is made to Glina. In the south, it stopped a truck carrying a cargo of mercury [who came from Italy] ... Today, if you go to Glina and speak Italian, you risk your skin. We are witnessing the same scenario in the south to Constanza, or a multitude of illegal landfills have disfigured the countryside. Recently, a foreign journalist has been beaten up: he wanted to investigate the scene and had presented with the safe conduct of an embassy. Romanian police and diplomatic offices have confirmed the incident. In Bucharest, advises everyone to take off - and no longer care for the "ecomafia" Balkan. Moreover, the problem does not exist. No ship docks here. And trucks is meant, at night, unload garbage foul are not real trucks. They disguise themselves as the waste they carry, behind false names and fake companies.
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Repere. The unending crisis Waste
The Camorra (Neapolitan Mafia) began in the traffic garbage in the early 1970s, becoming "service" on behalf of municipalities in the region of Naples, to dump saturated. Much of its action is to take these wastes by burying them or leaving them on the outskirts of cities. In addition, there are wild fires volleys, which infest the region of dioxin and contaminate the entire food chain. Since the 1990s, the "garbage crisis" of Naples back episodes on the front of the stage. In 2007-2008, the photographs of the historic center of Naples
, overrun with filth, had made the international press. The crisis has resurfaced last AUTUMN. During several weeks, residents of Terzigno, near Naples, have included blocking access to their saturated discharge of garbage and organizes demonstrations against the mismanagement of government. Approximately 1,500 tons of waste still littered the streets of Naples and its environs. January 10, 100 tons of Neapolitan waste were evacuated to a discharge of Imola in northern Italy. and the municipality is currently negotiating to export to Germany, Austria and Spain.
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Union Europeenne
The EU produces annually 2.6 billion tonnes of waste , 90 million tons are classified as "hazardous waste". The illegal dumping of one in five shipments of waste.
The Albanian government has announced that it intended to exempt 50 types of waste from any customs duty to encourage the importation of waste from abroad. However, environmental organizations are worried, the country has to date no serious drawplate recycling.
For over twenty years, says Le Courrier des Balkans, Albania and welcomes foreign waste is already "one of the most polluted in Europe."
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