The fight against the 'occupations racket' continues

The fight against the 'occupations racket' continues.

Today in Rome and Foggia the evictions of some public residential buildings continued to restore legality within the national territory, under the coordination of the prefectures.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi underlines that «these operations demonstrate the State's commitment to protecting rights and combating abuse and violence».
The fight against what the number one of the Interior Ministry defines continues 'occupations racket', in Foggia.

The action, prepared by the prefecture of Foggia, has allowed 20 public housing units to be returned to the community from November to today.
«The illegal occupation of public residential property not only constitutes economic damage but also leads to neglect and degradation, unfairly penalizing those who are assigned a house» the owner of the Interior Ministry continued, reiterating that "it is a priority to continue along the path taken."
Piantedosi specifies that housing needs cannot justify any occupation and that every support will be guaranteed to occupants who are in conditions of actual fragility.
«Furthermore, these occupations in many cases are managed by criminal organisations, as emerged today in Foggia and last week in Rome, which take advantage of the difficult situation of people to impose their control on the territory, also using the accommodation as bases for illicit trafficking. A criminal welfare system that replaces the State, relying on a real employment racket, is not tolerable», concluded the Minister Piantedosi.
Among the evictions that were ordered this morning, there is also the house that is the subject of a criminal case: 'illegal occupation and damage', these are the charges. Proceedings initiated before the single judge of the Court of Foggia, case which had been raised by the legality associationGiovanni Panunzio' and supported by the former senator Nicola Morra.
«I believe that what happened this morning is the recognition of the validity of the reasons put forward in the past weeks by the lawyer Lioi and myself», explained the president of the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, Nicola Morra to FoggiaToday. He continues, "certainly now we will have to evaluate the occupier's reasons, but regardless of everything, it seems to me that the State, albeit late, has protected the rights of a particularly fragile subject."