After the petitions on Change.org, launched by the council group Cambia con noi and by the spontaneous committee of Maremosso citizens who, in total, collected over 27 thousand signatures, and a parliamentary question presented by the exponent of Italia Viva, Roberto Giachetti, today the protest to save the former traffic light station where Guglielmo Marconi carried out the first short-wave radio connection experiment in 1932 from being transformed into a luxury hotel reaches the European Commission.
The MEP of Renew (Italia Viva), Nicola Danti, deposited a question to ask "whether the construction of a luxury hotel is compatible with the objective of conserving naturally living birds in the wild in the European territory of the Member States , as specified by directive 79/409CE".
The document reads: «The company New Fari srl has presented a project aimed at transforming the old traffic light of Capo Figari, in Golfo Aranci, into a luxury hotel, which, in addition to its historical significance, is located within a Special protection area identified by the Ministry of the Environment and forming part of the Natura 2000 network».
The mobilization to oppose the privatization and overbuilding of Capo Figari, after the agreement signed on 28 June between the Region and New Fari srl for a thirty-year concession for the redevelopment of the former traffic light station and the Luigi Serra Battery for accommodation purposes , has also gathered the adhesion of the environmental association Gruppo d'intervention juridical, of LIPU Sardegna and of the Italia Nostra association which, together with the Alghero per Punta Giglio association , will participate, on 22 July at 8 pm starting from the Baracconi beach , to the evening excursion, organized by Maremosso, for a conversation on the importance of the site and on the reasons for protecting and safeguarding the site.
«We can only say alongside Maremosso in the battle to defend Capo Figari: it is unthinkable that a ZCS area with a very high environmental value with protected priority habitats and including a SPA area where endangered bird species live, a cliff with another geological fragility, must be "valued" with the sole purpose of satisfying the Edenic taste of billionaire Robinsons», says the president of Italia Nostra Sardegna, Mauro Gargiulo.