The recovery commissioner Santi Trovato had been adamant. The “x” hour had been set for this week, and the bulldozers arrived on time, in action to demolish the strip of shacks overlooking Via Taormina.
Another portion of the district is therefore ready to go down, after the one swept away in the area overlooking Via Bonino. Together with the clearing of Via Ennio Quinto and the demolitions in Largo Diogene and the former wash house, a total of around fifty shacks will fall.
The shantytowns were a shame and they wanted to be eliminated with the special law on rehabilitation approved thanks to a synergistic relationship between all the political forces, due to the commitment of the undersecretary Matilde Siracusano who brought the former minister Mara Garfagna and the parliamentarian Gelmini and the then mayor Cateno De Luca to Messina.