In the Teulada elevation maps, “Antoni Panni” and “Perdas de Fogu” are two hills with less than two hundred meters of altitude, enclosed in a gigantic perimeter of barbed wire 49 kilometers long. From the dawn of time, adult cattle and newly weaned calves were the masters on these promontories. They were. Now there, for some time, they can no longer even come close. As if that infinite perimeter wall of rhomboidal iron and zinc network that surrounds the Sa Portedda polygon, that of Teulada were not enough, the military has further prohibited, complete with pointed steel concertina, even those two promontories of cistus and juniper. It is the year of the Lord 2012 when from Pisa, the logistics base of Cisam, the most advanced nucleus of the Navy for radioactivity, a group of experts sets out to turn the Capo Teulada polygon upside down.
Radiation wanted
They look for radioactive contamination of the soil. Stuff to make the skin crawl, for soldiers, civilians, shepherds and even cattle, adults and infants. They patrol inch by inch the areas where that storm of Milan missiles struck, the most nefarious, those with a confirmed radioactive content. The materials present in the "former warehouse", in the "ecological island" and in the "active powder area" are beating on the carpet. The radiometric measurements go as far as the two hills forbidden to graze, openly intended for "strike arrival areas", in practice where the targets to be blown up with radioactive tracer shots were located. The final report of that monitoring, first the Public Prosecutor and the Judge for Preliminary Investigations then, summarize it in quotation marks and in italics, as if it were the epitaph of that military proscenium: the examinations had revealed the "presence of radioactive contamination of some areas used in the past as landing areas for Milan missiles ".
The radioactive secret
It gets worse. From the documentation seized in the Polygon it emerged that "the leaders of the first Armored Regiment were aware of the presence of radioactive contamination inside the Polygon". It is at that moment that the men of the Prosecutor's Office discover that there are other areas that the CISAM had placed under guard, complete with bans on approach. It is April 2013 when "radiation protection measures are taken for the areas called" Seddas de Crobeddu "and" Perda de Fogu "with concertina for a radius of at least 20 meters from the center of the floats (transformed into targets for Milan missiles).
