The security of video surveillance, well-lit streets, buildings removed from decay, but also sport for all which keeps young people away from the sirens of the underworld and 'criminal welfare'. This is the content of the memorandum of understanding for the redevelopment of Tor Bella Monaca signed this morning at the Interior Ministry by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, the Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi, the governor of Lazio Francesco Rocca and the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri.
A centre-left mayor, a centre-right government and region, but today - everyone says it - differences in political sensitivity take a backseat. It's important to team up for one of the most difficult neighborhoods of the capital, where one of the largest drug dealing centers in Europe remains. Minister Abodi underlines this: "What emerges is the desire and pleasure of collaborating between institutions: it's like a title won or a medal". And Italy, he is keen to remember, is having a lot of satisfaction in this sense in recent days. "But the greatest satisfaction - he underlines - is when sport plays its role as a social immune defense". His ministry, through the Sport and Health company, will create a multifunctional sports playground with funding of 130 thousand euros.
Francesco Rocca's Lazio Region will instead finance a security service for 20 thousand euros per year and a concierge service for 80 thousand euros per year: Ater will identify real estate units to be used as concierge accommodation and to identify accommodation for Forces personnel of the order. All of this is part of the 3 million allocated by the regional council for the redevelopment and extraordinary maintenance of the Towers. "It's time to restore dignity to the citizens of those places - the governor's comment - It won't solve all the problems but it's an important signal. You can't work in socially fractured areas without security to accompany the operators".
The Interior Ministry for its part, Piantedosi announces, "will allocate resources for video surveillance equipment". They will cost 80 thousand euros and will be integrated in real time with the rooms and operations centers. "It is an unavoidable support for police operations" added the Interior Minister.
And just this morning over one hundred policemen, carabinieri and financiers carried out a 'high impact' blitz among the Towers: five arrests for drugs, the balance of the operation, and 15 complaints for illegal occupations and connections, 500 identified and four shops closed because they used illegal labor. However, the minister continues, "we do not carry out these raids in favor of cameras, but for months, for years. It is not an episodic attention: the government pays great attention to security, in the stations, in the peripheral areas, in the drug dealing squares ".
And Mayor Gualtieri speaks of "repressive but also regenerative" interventions: the Campidoglio will carry out public lighting interventions in Via Santa Rita da Cascia and will ensure a presence of traffic police to ensure decorum and road safety. Furthermore, he recalls, "the PUI began a few hundred meters from this intervention", the integrated urban plan of the Pnrr which is "the largest urban redevelopment intervention in Italy".
"They are the signs of a presence, an important signal that helps the territory - commented Don Antonio Coluccia, the priest who has been on the front line against the clans for years - but above all it helps the kids, who are valued. Don Milani's message can finally reach them: 'I care', your life is important to me".
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