Don Mimmo Battaglia, appeal for Torre Annunziata: “Community threatened by crime”

“Our ecclesial community shares the concerns recently expressed by some trade union organizations and signed by many associations present in the territory of Torre Annunziata And Castellammare di Stabia. As a Church we are witnesses of a disoriented social fabric where a a climate of mistrust towards the institutions and where entire areas of the territory have been transformed into squares of illegal economy or real strongholds under the control of organized crime. We therefore feel that we participate in the anxieties of our brothers and we claim with determination, with them, that politics return to serving the community and that the needs of many return to prevail over the interests of a few ». Like this Don Mimmo Battaglia, Metropolitan Archbishop of Naplesresponds to appeal letter addressed to the institutions, signed by Cgil, Cisl and Uil Naples and by numerous associations of the Stabiese-Torreserio area bent by the work emergency with open disputes affecting hundreds of workers.

The bishop raises the alarm of legality in a territory of 100 thousand inhabitants where important people are expected investmentssuch as those provided by the Cis Vesuviuson which the risk of infiltration by organized crime in a territory bent by the work emergency with open disputes affecting hundreds of male and female workers.

“There forfeiture of the economic and industrial system writes the bishop of Naples and the contemporary crisis in the tourism sectorattributable to the poor exploitation of the territory and its environmental resources, the absence of a development plan, have exacerbated the effects of marginalization of the weakest groups of society. All this presents itself as an outrage and a purulent wound within the urban and social fabric, and constitutes for us one of those suburbs that demand listening, demand attention and answers. And for this concludes the letter that we are willing to experiment participatory ways of exercising responsibility in proclaiming the Gospel and in the commitment to create more beautiful and more habitable cities, to invest in the richness of local spirituality “.

«The themes of work, sustainable development, the fight against criminal organizations writes the CGIL Naples in a note they must be at the center of the agenda for the politics and institutions of this land. If young and old are not given work, a honest and decent workif the Sarno River is not cleaned, if a inclusive welfare and a livable and beautiful territorytailored to the needs of citizens, if we do not start from all this it is impossible to defeat the Camorra. We are happy with the words of Bishop Battaglia, because we think that we are facing an epochal challenge that can be won only with the alliance between the best energies of society ».

Don Mimmo Battaglia, appeal for Torre Annunziata: “Community threatened by crime”