Slums in Messina, Siracusano on the attack: “The search for visibility is the handing over of the keys to unified networks”

“I find it sincerely inappropriate, and even a little surprising, the reaction of the mayor of Messina, Federico Basile, who accuses me of “seeking visibility” for my new appeal regarding the four families of the Taormina district – with ten children, including a newborn – who still live today in dramatic conditions in the barracks”. Thus Matilde Siracusano, undersecretary for relations with Parliament and Forza Italia deputy from Messina. “I say it with sincerity and with a smile: I have no need for visibility, and above all I don’t understand what it has to do with a request that is fully legitimate and foreseen by the law on redevelopment, a law that bears my signature and which was approved thanks to the decisive intervention of the then minister Mara Carfagna. To demonstrate that what I ask for is not only possible but necessary, just yesterday a house was assigned as an exception to a fifth family in the same district. The exception for the most serious situations is provided for by the law: otherwise it would make no sense to appoint a commissioner with special powers. Let us therefore proceed with the same criteria for the other four families, without further unnecessary controversy: we need solutions, not susceptibility. And, allow me, I find it truly singular that Mayor Basile – who in recent years has held dozens and dozens of press conferences handing over the keys of every single apartment to practically unified networks, as happened yesterday – accuses a member of the national government of seeking visibility. Stop with the chatter, we only need solutions”.