The notice of payment for the occupation of public land has arrived, but the eight commercial activities in Via Dettori, in Cagliari , have had their shutters down for the past two months, when they were forced to close due to a risk of collapse . Only a due act, that of the Municipality. Perhaps an automatism of the Tax Office, awaiting a suspension of the tax bills, promised and not yet implemented. But that photographs a reality that takes on more and more the contours of the nightmare every day.
Francesco Alba , owner of "Buffhouse - Wine Therapy and Bistrot" , is also experiencing it, forced to pay severance pay and fire employees , but without having yet received any relief: «There are funds that have been allocated to cover economic activities of Via Dettori», he says into our microphones, «we hope and trust that times will be quick because we really need it».
The economic damage , in fact, is enormous and rather easy to calculate: the exact difference between the turnover of the first two months of 2022 and the current zero of 2023. But not only that, as the lawyer Francesca Bertini explains: «The businesses will have large difficulty surviving and remaining open. They have invested to acquire customers, including on social media, and the prolonged closure will lead to an important loss of reputation and at the level of the brand».
Meanwhile, however, the causes have not been identified: "We are in full preventive technical assessment", explains the lawyer, "we have formulated hypotheses but there are no certainties. The widespread opinion is that there has been a landslide in the subsoil , linked to a loss of water in the pipes, but the technical consultant will clarify what happened».
Now Bertini's fear is that the emergency will fall into oblivion: «In January there was great attention, we are confident that the silence of February will not become oblivion . We ask that there be memory».
