The story of Giorgio Rosa, an eclectic engineer from Rimini, is true. They even made a film out of it, “L'Isola delle Rose”. All this takes place in the Romagna Riviera. It was 1968. The chronicles tell: a young engineer, oppressed by an intrusive state that prevents young people from freedom and self-management, decides to put his studies to good use. At 11,612 meters from the shoreline, it builds a floating platform of 400 square meters, outside Italian territorial waters. No one will be able to tell him anything, according to his assessments. Indeed, it does more.

State of the Isle of Roses

On May 1, 1968, it proclaims itself an Independent State: “Libera Teritorio de la Insula de la Rozoj”. Official language Esperanto. Postal issue and passports. The world will talk about it. An avalanche of applications for citizenship from all continents, including the United States. The Minister of the Interior at the time, a hardened Christian Democrat, Franco Restivo, the Prime Minister was Giovanni Leone, even receives a call from the UN to respect and substantially recognize that micronation. A sort of global fool. Fearing the shadow of itself, the Government of the time gives the order to "buy" in some way, with gifts and concessions, the direct supporters of the engineer Rosa, to try to make him desist, forcing him to abandon the artificial island built in middle of international waters, outside the jurisdiction of the Leone government. He, the stubborn engineer, who declared himself president of the Free State of the Isola delle Rose, however, did not give up. He runs to Strasbourg, to the Council of Europe, which listens to him in plenary. International and maritime law is not against that floating platform which has declared itself a free state. The Italian State, however, in the middle of the sea did not want anything to disturb the peace and navigation. In reality, the Christian Democrat state did not want libertine temptations a stone's throw from home. It took three years, but finally the state, strong with the weak and weak with the strong, will solemnly declare war on the Rose Isle State.

Island-state bombed

On 11 February 1969, bomb squad divers of the Italian Navy and the Commando Underwater Raiders mined the island with 75 kg of explosives. It was a fool. The Island did not sink. They returned two days later with 1080 kg of explosives. Yet another fool. The island had to wait for February 26, 1969 to give in to a strong storm that caused it to sink. 54 years have passed since then. International law changed following that affair: the border of international waters went from six miles to 12 miles, double that. The goal was to ward off new Rose Islands. In Sardinia, on the other hand, transformed into the island of the shovels, on land and at sea, there are no rules. Whoever arrives, from Norway to Sweden, from England to the United States, is free to do what they want. Or rather to design and mortgage the sea in front of the Sardinian coast as it sees fit, even if the goal is to devastate scenarios and landscapes, threaten navigation and forever deface the marine heritage of the area chosen for the havoc. To Giorgio Rosa, the engineer, despite international recognition, they bombed, without even succeeding, the floating state-platform placed in international waters, in a sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, which, with all due respect, is not worth much compared to the Sardinian one.

Breathtaking beaches

Here, however, in the earthly paradise of the Mediterranean, with beaches and breathtaking landscapes, it happens that powerful companies, multinationals with stars and stripes and now, even, the Krauts sent from Germany that belonged to Merkel, come to undermine and occupy the stretches of water at sea more precious, to the sound of almost 300-metre wind turbines positioned on the border of international waters, a stone's throw from the untouched and exclusive horizon of the island. The insult, yet another, takes place a few hours before the end of the month of March, when the Ministry of Energy Security receives a deluge of planning papers, all branded Germany, intended for the occupation of the body of water considered by the most important tourist magazines international as the most exclusive in the world. We are talking about that stretch of coast which from Capo Spartivento, municipality of Domus de Maria, crossing Santa Margherita di Pula, up to Pula, contains a wealth of enchanting beaches, breathtaking scenery. It is no coincidence that there is also the first resort in the world for quality, the Forte Village, that of the Russians. To present the outrage to that coast is BayWa re, a German multinational, born and raised to develop agriculture in and around Berlin, then throwing itself headlong into the "cultivation" of the wind.

From Su Giudeu to Pula

All much more profitable. In Italy, for example, they give you money to build the shovels, billionaire incentives to spin them, and they even allow you to build them in front of the most beautiful beaches in the Mediterranean. The project filed by the Germans has a devastating impact to say the least: 47 wind turbines 280 meters high in the sea in front of Capo Spartivento, the fairy-tale beach of Su Giudeu in Domus de Maria, the constellation of white sandy shores of Santa Margherita di Pula, right in front of Forte Village, up to Cala Verde in the municipality of Pula. So much for the environment, nature, landscape, the maritime horizon, the navigation of oil tankers, boats and ferries. A real floating city of wind turbines placed in a strategic point, from the German point of view. On one side, that of Teulada, they play warfare with real bombs, land-water, water-land, land-air and air-land, and on the other side, that of Sarroch, tankers circulate as if there were a regatta high seas.

Germans away

The only free space to wedge in was precisely the one that the "Koreans" who came from Cologne, forward Bavaria, chose to ask for concessions at sea and authorizations to erect wind turbines in the middle of the water. They didn't pose any kind of problem, quite the contrary. Obviously, they have also included a chapter on the "important" economic repercussions for the area in the project, from the maintenance of those steel skyscrapers to ground guarding. A climb on nothing that would leave anyone with a minimum of common sense and a sense of the ridiculous amazed. Regolo spa, the 100% BayWa re company, the one that put its face in the presentation of the project, has thought of everything, from the landing of the cables, obviously at the Saras house, in Sarroch, up to the place where to assemble the blades wind farms. For the latter site they plan to use an area of 85 hectares positioned close to the disused quay of the now defunct Porto Canale of Cagliari. It is not known whether the chosen area is a random location, but from the maps attached to the wind project it is clear that it practically occupies the entire space intended for a Zona Franca fenced off only by figure, but which for years has been a heath desolate without half a productive yard.

Another 800,000 inhabitants

Last detail of this project: according to the planners those 47 wind turbines should produce energy for 800,000 inhabitants. Added to all the other offshore projects already presented on the Sardinian coast, the needs of 25 million inhabitants are abundantly exceeded. Giorgio Rosa, the engineer of the Island-State of Roses, was destroyed by explosives' dream of freedom, here, on the island of wind turbines, however, the lords of the wind are stretched out with red carpets. Every foreigner who lands on the island, in search of breathtaking landscapes to sway the wind and sea, earning an avalanche of billionaire incentives, is welcome. The Sardinians pay their bills and not only.

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