Confiscated from the mafia in 2007, the Municipality of Rome has not yet managed to assign it as a social asset. We are talking about the gym in via Cornelio Magni in the Ardeatino district, in the Piazza dei Navigatori area, abandoned and unused for 15 years with also the insult to be borne by the condominiums who live in the same building, forced to pay for the reclamation interventions out of their own pockets for two years. bleeding caused by the rupture of a sewer collector. Two stories of inefficiency and inefficiency in the same story. We retrace the main stages.
The history of the gym in via Magni
In 2007 the property was assigned to the Municipality of Rome after being in charge of the State Property for decades immediately after the seizure. At that date, it was still used by a service cooperative that was already carrying out tasks there when the place was still owned by a well-known exponent of the Magliana gang. In 2011, the Alemanno council announced the assignment of 56 assets confiscated from the mafia, including the gym in via Magni, the management of which was entrusted to the “Podgora” carabinieri association. The then mini-mayor Andrea Catarci, however, denounces a conflict of interest in this regard. A Capitoline councilor is a member of the association, who after a while leaves the premises, since then closed and abandoned.
In April 2014, the Heritage Department announced a reassignment through a public tender for 11 properties (including the former gym in Via Magni). But in March 2021 on the Roma Capitale portal the asset is still not entrusted and with an ongoing investigation. This is 742 square meters intended for carrying out rehabilitation activities for the disabled. However, everything is at a standstill in the Heritage and Housing Policies department.
The sewer to be repaired
In the front line to ask the Municipality and the Town Hall to take action the Capitoline councilor of the Calenda list Dario Nanni and the councilor of the VIII municipality Simona Novi. Last week a resolution proposal in the Public Works Committee, also signed by the councilor Caterina Bonetti, was rejected, gathering the favorable opinions only from the Brothers of Italy and M5s. It will be discussed in the classroom on 23 March. Two requests to the president and competent councilors.
On the one hand “to take action towards the Heritage and Social Department for a sanitary remediation of the room in question and for its restructuring in order to quickly activate the procedures for assignment to third sector entities that request it” . On the other hand, to “urge Acea to arrive at a prompt resolution of the problem linked to the municipal sewerage collector. Yes, because the case does not stop at the failure to allocate spaces.
The tenants of the same condominium have been living with a sewer leak for two years that has not yet been resolved. “The breakdown of the Acea manifold has not yet been repaired and has forced the condominium to spend 40,000 euros for continuous self-purging interventions (every two months) and to live with an open sewer with consequent problems of public hygiene and miasma” explain the councilors . Besides the damage, it must be said, the insult.