They cost the state 69 euros each. In Cagliari there are hundreds and hundreds, piled up in high schools and never used. And they are a problem for managers, who don't know where to put them.

These are the individual anti Covid desks that the commissioner for the epidemic, then led by Domenico Arcuri, had delivered in 2020 - when the boys were in dad - in schools throughout Italy. A 9 million euro lot of a maxi supply, managed by the Nautilus company: it was discovered that they were not up to standard and the block was ordered.

The schools of Cagliari have been waiting for indications to arrive. There have not been. And now they are still there, wrapped in plastic.

"I have no spaces, I don't know where to put them." The headmaster of Michelangelo, Raffaele Rossi, spreads his arms dejectedly in front of the more than 350 desks he has so far held in the school gym in via dei Donoratico. The space was unusable due to the need for An intervention on the ceiling. Now everything has been solved and he would like the pupils to be able to use it again. He will have to find a place for those useless furnishings. Others are already in the corridor, for a total of 450. Perhaps they will end up along the corridors. Waiting for a solution. definitive.

The head of the Pacinotti high school, Valentina Savona, cut the bull's head: in via Liguria the benches, several hundred, were deposited in the courtyard. Outdoors. “We know that there is a dispute in progress”, explains the manager, “so we cannot use them. And we can't get rid of it as if nothing had happened ”. She would know how to use them: “But as long as there are no authorizations, under these conditions they stay there”.

The problem is common to many city institutions. And the metropolitan city has its hands tied: "Those supplies did not pass through us", explains Alessandro Balletto, delegate of the mayor for public education, "otherwise we could have managed the affair, perhaps with the withdrawal by Proservice, our in-house company. But he did the whole ministry ”.

And no indications come from Rome. Millions of euros spent on materials that constitute a huge footprint never used.

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