Italy : radioactive material transported by ships , Part. 1

From 2000 to the present, judicial inquiries on toxic waste have been 33 in Naples , by four prosecutors (Naples , Nola , Torre Annunziata , Santa Maria Capua Vetere ) and 73 in Campania . Adelphi, Cassiopeia, Madre Teresa, Carosello , Nerone, Chernobyl .  31 are the orders of arrest : 448 people complained ; 116 companies involved . The first boss regretted ecomafia dates back to 1998 . Nunzio Perrella is called . So far 22 have been the repentant ecomafia . By Dario De Simone , Bidognetti Domenico Gaetano Vassallo Oreste Spagnuolo , Diana Tommaso , Pasquale Di Fiore to Carmine Schiavone . The first criminal case opened in relation to each other Ship to lose was the one bearing the no. 2114/94 mod. 21 RGNR , registered at the District Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, assigned to the deputy public prosecutor , Dr. Francesco Neri . The procedure was first opened against persons unknown as a result of a complaint by Legambiente of 2 March 1994 in which he denounced the existence in Aspromomnte , illegal dumping of toxic - containing material harmful and / or radioactive material transported by ships at ports Calabria and then in the mountains with heavy vehicles. The theme investigative soon expanded , came to the prosecutor in Reggio Calabria, the news that the ship Koraby , flying the Albanian flag and set sail from the port of Durres to Palermo , had been searched in the bay in front of Pentimele , because suspected of carrying radioactive material ( copper slag blast furnace ) . The ship arrived in Palermo , was rejected by the radioactivity of the load. However, the next control at the port of Reggio Calabria , where it was moored that radioactivity was not found . The ship had thus resumed its navigation destination Durres. This figure was represented by Dr. Neri as particularly disturbing because it could lead to the presumption that the ship was freed of radioactive cargo in the path between Palermo and Reggio Calabria. During the checks carried out at the port of Reggio Calabria by the Guardia di Finanza , was found on board the ship an outboard motor , of which the master was unable to provide any justification. Subsequent checks carried out , allowed to check the provenance stealth . He was willing , therefore , the commander of the judicial police custody for receiving stolen property and the seizure of the ship , meanwhile docked at the port of Pescara. The investigations subsequently deposited on the radioactivity of the ship Koraby were unsuccessful, and the ship was release from seizure . The commander , during the interrogation made ​​before the courts of Pescara , had stated that the cargo was unloaded in Durres withdrawn at Rieka (Fiume ), Slovenia , before being loaded onto rail cars with unknown destination. He then began to outline the hypothesis that the toxic waste could be disposed of illegally at sea. In the same period was acquired by the prosecutor of the Republic of Savona ( Public Prosecutor Dr. . Landolfi ) documentation about the discovery of 6,000 drums containing toxic material in a quarry Borghetto Santo Spirito , run by people linked to the Calabrian clans . The hypothesis , then deepened by the attorney responsible for the territory of Locri , was that the toxic material could be allocated to the South , from the territories managed by gangs predicted. The above is the scenario in which developed the survey conducted by dr. Neri . Precisely because of the complexity of the situations emerged , it was created a special investigative team , consisting of the chief marshal Scimone Domenico , belonging to the section of the Carabinieri police to the prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Lieutenant Commander De Grazia Natale, by Marshal M. Moschitta and the policeman Rosario Francaviglia , the latter two operating units within the core of the operating department Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria. This group was able to interface with both the prosecutors in Matera ( investigating the research center Trisaia Enea Rotondella ) and with the Forestry Corps of Brescia (who had long since begun investigations focused on Giorgio Comerio, the alleged trafficker of toxic waste , and more generally focused on the trafficking of radioactive waste ) .