Messina, degradation in San Licandro Alta: via Interdonato transformed into an open -air landfill

John

By John

An abusive landfill in the heart of a residential neighborhood. It happens in via Nino Interdonato, in the upper part of the San Licandro district, where incivility has now taken over on the civic sense and respect for the common spaces.
The images circulating on the net and that come from the area are eloquent: heaps of waste stacked over a wall, which originally simply delimited a stretch of road but which today has become the border of a real open -air landfill. Undise bags, old furniture, abandoned appliances, furnishings: everything that the incivile do not know – or do not want – to dispose of correctly ends up thrown in this forgotten corner of the city.

The situation is comparable only to that found along the road that leads to the Sarrizzo hills, another sad trait known for the uncontrolled abandonment of waste. Also in this case, the phenomenon seems to have been consolidated and tolerated for some time, to the point of transforming the area into one of the so -called “franche zones”, where the rules of civil coexistence seem suspended and the incivile act undisturbed.

The frustration of residents grows day by day. There are those who report, who photograph, those who share on social networks, but the impression is that nothing really changes. The absence of effective controls and sanctions has in fact created a shadow area where degradation has easily attracted.

The citizens, exasperated, are loudly asking for the installation of surveillance cameras. “In other areas of the city – they explain – they worked as a deterrent and in some cases they also served to identify the managers of the abandonments”. The hope is that even San Licandro Alta can soon be equipped with effective control tools, in order to return decoration and safety to a neighborhood that does not deserve to be submerged by waste and indifference.