Ex Ilva, Marini (Taranto defender): “perplexed by the silence of Cds on environmental impact”

“While appreciating the balance of the Council of State’s decision on the former Ilva, especially in the part in which it states that the Ministry, in the event of a recurrence of dangerous events, ‘will obviously assume the relative responsibilities’, for having deemed the powers lacking of the Mayor’s intervention, nevertheless leaves us perplexed by the fact that the Board has focused exclusively on the administrative act and on the individual (merely symbolic and illustrative) incidental events it deals with, affirming instead that it does not want to express itself on the overall environmental and health impact determined from the presence on the territory of the Taranto steel plant ‘”. The constitutionalist, professor of public law at the Tor Vergata University, Francesco Saverio Marini, defender of the municipality of Taranto, tells the Adnkronos. “The legal justifications for such an argument escape, both taking into account the fact that the Mayor’s ordinance had the overt environmental and health crisis in the area as its main premise, which the Council of State itself considered to be a peaceful fact ‘, both in consideration of the evolution, now consolidated, of the administrative judgment, which is no longer a mere formal judgment on the deed, but on the overall underlying relationship “, affirms the lawyer and concludes:” together with the Municipality we will evaluate possible further initiatives to be undertaken, trusting in any case that the events that have affected the plant will lead the institutions to a change of pace with a view to improving the health of the Taranto population “.