The Basile Administration sues the engineer. Gaetano Sciacca. A judicial clash, which however has the flavor of a political duel, just a few days after the announcement of the political “metamorphosis” of part of the Messina 3S association. A decision that emerges from a resolution approved on Tuesday by the council of mayor Federico Basile, on the proposal of the councilor for litigation Roberto Cicala, and which is due to the “assessments expressed, both on the technical and legal aspects in the complaint sent to the Municipality of Messina and received on 4 November”, integrating a previous complaint from June.
In those complaints Sciacca and his movement targeted the interchange car parks created by the Municipality and requested seismic and safety checks on the streams. According to the Municipality, we read in the provision with which the Council awarded the 2,622 euro legal task to the lawyer Salvatore Silvestro, “the defamatory attitude used was then raised in the media and on social media, also creating profiles of unjustified and unjustifiable alarm”, hence the need to “protect the image of the Council and the Municipality”, but also “the respectability and professionalism of the managers of the offices, at various levels involved, in the exercise of the various administrative activities of competence”.
Sciacca, who has already received various certificates of solidarity (from Marcello Scurria to Dafne Musolino), reacts like this: «Instead of approving a simple council resolution to appoint structural technicians, the administration chooses a more expensive and completely inexplicable path. When it comes to strategic infrastructures, entrusting checks to qualified professionals is not a discretionary choice, it is a duty, an obligation towards the safety of the city and citizens. This decision, which favors alternative paths with no concrete utility, represents a political choice that raises serious questions and requires immediate clarity.” According to the former chief engineer of the Civil Engineering Department, it is a “reckless complaint”, so much so that he has announced “a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Auditors for damage to the treasury. Public money cannot be spent on technical consultancy without any need or utility other than to intimidate and intimidate the complainant, who I would like to remind you is a technician who I believe, without false modesty, is qualified to say certain things”.