For a neutral outside it is difficult to make an assessment of the investigation conducted by the Prosecutor, one only a clear breaking point emerges: it lies in the committee that brings together the many buyers (by reservation) of apartments. Their voice – are victims – is not listened to. It would take – also for the dignity of Milan – at least a quick and concrete response. But it is not foreseen
Where there was the grass of the Luna Park of the Varesine now there is, and for quite a while, a citadel of skyscrapers. And what was glorified like “Milan that never stops” has woke up with the nightmare of handcuffs: both for a very esteemed councilor, what is Giancarlo Tancredi; Both for the number one of the manufacturers, Manfredi Catella, who with his Coima has glassy, verticalized and marked the new Milan. What was “beautiful” suddenly looks like a pestilence. But how is it possible?
The procure
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To try to understand, we have to rest the reasoning on four pillars. The first is the prosecutor.
For the first time for decades, the boss is a “non -Milanese”, Marcello Viola. It is very different from the last Ambrosian chief prosecutor, namely Francesco Greco, who – we brutally summarize – in the last period has not entrusted only one file to a real number one, like Ilda Boccassini, and left white paper to Fabio De Pasquale on the Eni investigation, with the consequences that everyone has seen.
If Greek chose, purple, at least so far, let it do and supervise. His method has produced highly thick investigations, such as the epochal on the curves of San Siro, but others much less clear. In any case, with Viola at the top, do the added prosecutors feel they have their hands free? Too?
The investigation
So we come to the second point. The investigation into the urban planning started from a building built in a courtyard in Piazza Aspromonte (2019) and from there it is gradually enlarged (in six years). Now, if we talk “In Amitiè“With some architect, there are those who say” he was now, the prosecutor’s office is good “and there are those who say” but it’s madness, they are wrong everything “.
For a neutral outsider it is difficult to make an evaluation, one clear breaking point emerges: it lies in the committee that brings together the many buyers (by reservation) of apartments. He finds himself with the construction sites blocked, homeless, or with the house and the risk of a supermarket, or who knows. And their voice – they are victims – is not listened to. From none.
The mayor
Certainly he cannot answer – here is the third pillar to decipher the question – the mayor Beppe Sala. In the first term he had been effective and highly appreciated by the Milanese (with the victory in the elections without ballot). The second was often characterized by its absence: in the sense that the mayor will be there, but where is it? What does it do?
You don’t see it fighting politically on the scene. Is the Municipality right to have given space to the manufacturers? Yes, of course, this is affirmed everywhere by the first citizen, but superficially. Yet Sala The story knows it, he knows that every time politics retreats, other powers advance. And since he remains one of the few mayors of the center -left still afloat, reducing it or resizing it can be of great interest for many.
In the 90s on political corruption, Tangentopoli broke out, the investigation that changed the first Republic and opened the way to Silvio Berlusconi and Forza Italia. The other great investigation into corruption hit the forzist Roberto Formigoni, who loved to call herself “The Celeste”, but made a public fool of a lot of other color. And this that has opened-it will be necessary to see that it will make the investigating judge and how it will go on-therefore seems, at least by heart, the third great investigation on the return of the urban-body binomial.
Urban planning-body
This is therefore the fourth pillar, because surprisingly we arrive at the arrest request for Tancredi and Catella. The first, architect, was such a good technician, and so skilled in the explanations, that the same room claimed him in his very faithful team. The second is the king of brick and his billionaire crown has just added one last gem, the Olympic village that is being built where there was the Porta Romana railway stopover. It does not seem, said by a layman, one of Coima’s unforgettable buildings.
Is it possible that the banana peel has been found here that slides, and perhaps fall, the Milan model? It is a fall that also reverberates on Stefano Boeri: Archistar, creator of the vertical forest, president of the Triennale, and also personally nice. Imagining it to plot for a contract is not easy, but today the chatter is wasted, the mud splashes everywhere. It would take – also for the dignity of Milan – at least a quick and concrete response. But, in the judicial “letting it do”, it does not seem expected. The perfect storm has unleashed.
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