The pandemic was in its infancy. The first cases in Italy were still limited. The dawn of 2020, however, did not seem a good omen. In Sardinia, when everyone was already preparing for the calamity of the century, there were those who took care to set up a real merciless war machine capable of scraping the already poor pockets of Sardinian citizens to the bottom . An unprecedented deployment of means to try everything and for everything, in order to bring "home" a millionaire nestle able to plug the holes, deficits and debts of the most imposing water factory on the island, Abbanoa. To be put under the "press" were precisely those citizens-users who, willy-nilly, in order to have the primary good of water, had to deal with the company delegated to manage, under a monopoly regime, the integrated water service of Sardinia.
Two million reminders
It is immediately after January 1, 2020 that Abbanoa has the most decisive attack on the pockets of its users. The Competition Authority photographs that phase as a real flood of "recommended" that pour like a stone-thrower into the homes of the Sardinians. The Guarantor writes: "Finally, it appears that, after 1 January 2020, the company sent about 1-2 million payment reminders, also without any indication that they concerned bills including - unspecified - amounts. subject to prescription ". An unprecedented avalanche of payment reminders . Against «1-2 million» letters sent, it is thought that Abbanoa users are 750,000. All letters functional to request the payment of sums clearly prescribed, not due, with the indication of generic amounts that ended up, however, to put the citizen-user back to the wall. Not simple letters of invitation to pay "prescribed sums", without ever indicating them clearly, but real letters "charged" with consequences that would have led to undergo "pressure" even to the most strenuous opponent of so many "aggressive" requests. Abbanoa did not limit himself to asking for the payment of "overdue" sums, prescribed and not due, but he put on paper the worst of the threats: we will cut off the water if you do not pay . The Guarantor Authority "seizes" the letter under accusation in the proceedings against Abbanoa. The Sardinian water company wrote: "If the arrears persist and the conditions foreseen occur, the suspension and deactivation of the supply can be carried out after 40 days from the receipt of this amicable reminder". Therefore, the Guarantor reconstructs, not only did Abbanoa ask for sums that were not due as they were clearly prescribed, but, in order to obtain payment, he switched to the strong streets, . The Swiss Competition Authority watch was on time like never before. On Sunday in the Sardinian Union investigation we announced the imminent decision signed by Roberto Rustichelli, President of the Guarantor Authority and by the Secretary General Guido Stazi.
