** Ex Ilva: Banfi, ‘ten-year problems in Taranto, I’m sorry Vendola has to pay them’ **

“It is always difficult for everyone, even for magistrates as well as politicians, to intervene on controversial issues such as the former Ilva: the truth is that you should never ask anyone and first of all any workers and their families to choose between safeguarding health and saving the workplace “. This is what the Apulian actor Lino Banfi observes, commenting on the sentence of the Taranto assize court to AdnKronos. “The question has been open for decades – remembers Banfi – and in this sense I am sorry for the former governor of Puglia, Nichi Vendola, given that the institutional task of regional presidents lasts only a few years but then they are called to respond by justice also on themes that preceded them and on which they sought solutions. For the rest, no one can accept that one has to die in order to work … “.