The controversy over the "Health in Serie A" ride continues, to which the municipality of Assemini has denied sponsorship . The president of Isde Sardegna Domenico Scanu responds to the mayor Mario Puddu .

«Faced with those who pollute and do not pay and with a problem of environmental justice - declares Domenico Scanu (President of ISDE - Sardinia) the doctors of ISDE cannot remain silent and must always support the hope of those who believe that man can wake up instead of being condemned to oblivion, resignation or submission. Our commitment continues even when representatives of the institutions such as the Mayors do not support them, on the contrary they decisively reverse in the granting of a patronage denied after a week from the start of the authorization procedure. On behalf of ISDE, my behavior was coherent after having expressed the initiative to the new Mayor by telephone, on 20 June I sent a certified email to the Municipality of Assemini and to the Mayor himself with a formal request for patronage which was already acquired but also the press release (attached) in which the title of the event, the objectives, the places and the partners are specified. This press release, only after the patronage was granted, was sent on 27 June, therefore a week later, to the Press Office of ISDE Italia to be disclosed to the Sardinian media and, another important detail, only after having received it on 26 June the Pec communication from the Commander of the Municipal Police (Isp. n. 141 Prot. Gen.le n° 0023874). The audio of Mayor Mario Puddu's message in which he authorizes us to acquire the patronage of the Municipality is available to anyone who wants to hear it".

Revocation of sponsorship

«On the same evening of 27 June, at 18.32, the new mayor Mario Puddu informed me by telephone that he disassociated the Municipality of Assemini from the event called "La Salute in Serie A" scheduled for 8 July in Assemini. The circumstances - continues Scanu - lead me to produce this official communication because on the morning of June 28 I was reached via WhatsApp by a group that claims to take care of Mayor Puddu's communication, writing to me "to remove any reference to the Municipality of Assemini from our communication and ask the newspapers to do the same". Faced with these methods and the lack of my word, I therefore kindly asked to receive this information by certified email, which never arrived".

The missed reclamations

«Regarding the reclamations, a topic that the Mayor intends to deepen with a service conference - declares Scanu - I take this opportunity to point out that the state of implementation of the reclamations can be seen from the communication of the Forestry and Environmental Surveillance Corps, which in April 2023 informed the Public Prosecutor of Cagliari, the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, the Environment Department of the Sardinia Region, the Metropolitan City of Cagliari and the Municipalities of Uta and Monastir and Assemini, interested in the need for environmental remediation three years after the sentence. The document is therefore in the mayor's drawer and should only be read! The former extraordinary commissioner, Bruno Carcangiu, had gone further by distrusting Fluorsid. The document only shows reclamation of the perimeter of the plant and the construction of sheds and conveyor belts to process the volatile material indoors. To the environmental disaster is therefore added the circumvention of the obligations of effective complete environmental remediation and not the least to do in the event of similar damage to nature and to the polluted population».

The position of the Sardinian Public Health Defense Network

«It is disconcerting - declares Claudia Zuncheddu (Speaker for the Sardinian Defense Public Health Network) - the reversal of the mayor of Assemini, Puddu, with respect to the granting of patronage to the cycling event in defense of health promoted by Isde - Doctors for the environment. We don't understand who or what led the mayor to withdraw the concession, guaranteed and reaffirmed to the president of Isde Sardegna. An institutional accident even more serious due to the study commitment of the Isde doctors, on the health of the Assemini community, in agreement with the municipality, of which Puddu is today mayor. We believe that the title of the event, "La Salute in Serie A", shouldn't offend anyone. That the right to health conquers the highest place in the standings, even more for a community that is in great pain from the epidemiological data collected by Isde doctors, is everyone's hope. Mayor Puddu, as the highest local health authority in matters of hygiene, health and environmental protection within the municipal area, must fulfill the role attributed to him by law, of guarantor of the health of his community. A role that imposes checks on polluting activities and that the obligation to remediate compromised habitats, established in the courts, be fulfilled by those responsible".

The flash mob "Health in Serie A"

«The ride - declares Veronica Matta (President of Sa Mata) - "Health in Serie A" organized by Isde doctors, the Sardinian Defense Network of Public Health, the Order of Doctors of the province of Cagliari, the Sa Mata association, Life After Oil International Film Festival, is confirmed for July 8 with a flash mob in front of the gates of Fluorisd to solicit - underlines Matta - the start of the reclamations civilly and not to launch arrows at anyone a priori despite three years having passed since the sentence of the court and from the eleven settlements for environmental disaster. This is what ISDE and the other organizers wish to bring once again to the attention of Assemini and the territory and symbolically addressing the Institutions in favor of all the conditions of environmental pollution as well as the health repercussions present in Sardinia».

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