Roberto Peria (Mayor of Portoferraio)
Sometimes before a decision was the leader, hiding behind the expression "is a necessary act" in fact this is a way of saying that, according to the law and institutional duties, did not comment, in promoting an initiative, no discretion. Had to be done and you are done.
regard to my recent order for evacuation of the settlement abusive former Enel does not feel like just saying this, even if the act was objectively due, because I do not feel seems to evade my responsibilities also ethical administrator, my duty not to succumb in the face of a rule the reasons for that choice, I knew well, could not have political consequences, could not hit certain sensitivities.
In this regard I would say that I respect the reasons of those who disagree, even to the point of going to a lot of similarities actually improvised with other evictions, such as that of the old shelter, or who sees in this choice a sort of victory a superficial respectability and provincial, a barely concealed sense of security built on the rejection of the other, I have deep respect for these views because they correspond to a human and social sensitivity I appreciate that, in general, but I can not share a large part of what has been written and would like to explain why. The order of the former
Enel, before a duty, an act was necessary, came after several months of attention and monitoring done by the Administration. This year we have seen the growing informal settlement, the occupants steadily increase, the human conditions and hygiene become unsustainable.
not service meant something then to increase further, due to its characteristics, rather than its physical size, it would become unmanageable, from all points of view.
In recent years, with Cosetta Pellegrini, we have helped many foreigners, Roma and other nationalities, and we tried to do this through a process of integration which does not bend them to our way of life, but through the mediation of social and cultural favored meeting places and contact possible. But what we can not accept is that they generate patterns of settlement and life completely unsustainable in terms of human health even before. If someone
for being progressive means tolerate the emergence of slums, where people live in subhuman conditions, in total social detachment from the rest of the community, well then consider me something else, because I believe that the acceptance can not be separated from the rules that govern mutual coexistence, not only that: it is the passive acceptance of certain phenomena, the inability to govern in the name of a misguided sense of tolerance, or a confused liberal sensibilities, which are created ghettos, or , in reaction, rejection of the foreigner, the demagoguery of some magnificent riding right, the idiocy of the army patrols the streets of our cities.
I believe, however, that the determination to remove what is an acceptable settlement, can not fail to pay social and human to people, the willingness to give them the social support that would be granted to any citizen in similar conditions, prepared to accept and receive it. The safety net the city has built parallel to the order of eviction, if Val and his partner want to, can enjoy.
The future of our city is in the reception and integration, but these must be accompanied by rules and principles, without them it only generates an optimal breeding ground for the worst social evils, intolerance and paves the way for those who want to build fear and rejection of the cornerstone of his strongest political fortunes.
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