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01 Gennaio 2011 | in categoria/e lettere

LIGURI, fermate il cemento.. finché siete in tempo! Ve lo diciamo dall'Inghilterra

We live in Liverpool, I was born in England,my wife was born in Italy but came here when young and went to school here. My mother was born in Val Graveglia, my father,England, to Italian parents. My apologies for composing this email in English. My spoken Italian is OK but my written is very poor. We read your article in the Maggio edition of Corfole and especially the piece about Alessandro De Leo and his campaign against the ‘Cementisation’ of Liguria’. You have what is one of the most beautiful provinces and coastline in Europe and it has been drawing visitors since before the days of mass tourism. What happened to Alessandro in order to keep him quiet was an action against free speech and illegal,a sign that there is much vested interest in the covering of Liguria in cement. Many people blame ‘the mafia’ but they survive only with the cooperation of local officials. Already English newspapers are advising people to visit Tuscany before that too becomes covered in cement,like Liguria. I’m afraid Italians are destroying their own country Sad.
Tony Cozzolino, from Liverpool

Nota di redazione: anche i nostri lettori all’estero rimangono sbalorditi leggendo alcuni articoli, come quello del rischio di galera per l’ambientalista che ha manifestato contro la cementificazione (CORFOLE di maggio); l’amico che ci scrive dall’Inghilterra si dice preoccupato per la paura che le bellezze italiane e liguri in particolare (visto che la sua famiglia è originaria della Val Graveglia) siano a ‘rischio estinzione’, oppresse da una colata di cemento. E ci svela un retroscena inquietante quando dice che i giornali inglesi stanno consigliando di visitare la Liguria e la Toscana ‘finché si è in tempo’.... Come potrebbe dire Tony “Oh my God!”