Rome, Italy (Weltexpress). When Robert Prevost, as Pope Leo XIV, denounced “dizzying” denounced the profits made from the rubbish trade in Acerra near Naples, he was not referring to his own state of Vatican City, but to the state of capital surrounding it and thus to the Republic of Italy, which is no less a hotbed of cronyism and corruption (KuK stands for Klüngel und Korruption) than the one presided over by Prevost.
An area north of Naples and south of Caserta is known as the Terra dei fuochi (Land of Fires). There is talk of a ‘triangle of death’ in relation to the area between Acerra, Nola and Marigliano. There, rubbish is illegally buried and burned. Not to mention the rubbish that is dumped into the sea.
The burning of rubbish is carried out so openly that it mocks the capitalist state in broad daylight. Rubbish is dumped in roadside ditches, doused with petrol and set alight. The incidence of diseases, including cancer and birth defects, is rising.
Sooner or later, the pollutants from the rubbish end up in the sea, in the soil, in the air and in our food. According to experts and critics, the rubbish mafia in this ‘Valley of Death’ and the surrounding area is part of the Neapolitan Camorra.
