The City Council of Reggio Calabria has decided to assign a confiscated property located in via XXV Luglio n. to the National Archaeological Museum of the city. 24. The resolution approved in the last executive session specifies that the property must be used for the institutional purposes of the Archaeological Museum and that the assignment will be free of charge for a period of five years starting from the signing of the delivery report of the property. «From an extraordinary monitoring activity on the confiscated assets which are part of the organisation’s assets – it is written in a note – it emerged that the asset, also in consideration of its structural characteristics, was in fact unused for profit-making purposes. Therefore in recent months the National Agency for the administration and destination of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime was asked to change destination – from profit-making to institutional purposes, which at the end of April gave its green light with a specific decree. Last May 26, the MarRC asked the Municipality, as part of the collaboration agreement signed between the parties, for the availability of the assignment of a room located on the ground floor to be used for institutional activities and storage, taking on the burden of supporting the renovation and adaptation of the same rooms. For this purpose, the municipal administration has therefore identified the confiscated property in via XXV Luglio which is located in the area adjacent to the Museum headquarters. The Municipality of Reggio Calabria thus intends to “fully valorise its confiscated assets which are currently unused – we read in the text of the Council’s resolution – by encouraging their reuse and thus returning them to the community”. The Administration also aims to “fully implement the principles of public value, contributing to the improvement of the services provided in favor of the community and the Reggio area”, and, in this specific case, to implement what is foreseen in the collaboration agreement with the museum by promoting and supporting its activities”.
«This is a new, important piece – declared the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà – which is part of the path of recovery and valorisation of the assets confiscated from the ‘ndrangheta and their reuse for the benefit of the community, after having first definitively removed them from organized crime and then at the risk of prolonged non-use which would compromise their potential. Now – concluded the mayor – this property will have a new life thanks to the synergy with the Museum which consolidates a path of institutional collaboration of which the community has been seeing and appreciating the fruits for some time now”.
