It has a certain effect, for those who, in this forbidden land, have always been accustomed to state camouflage. The entrance to Sa Portedda, the most born shooting range in Sardinia, is barred. Not even a soldier on the horizon. As if an "electric coup" had taken possession of what the Generals have always considered their secret and inviolable "santabarb". To find a way through the land violated and raped with bombs and missiles you have to go further. Close to the crossroads for "Ciufagai", a kilometer further on, two bags of sand nail a tripod to the ground with a fake military-yellow sign. There is nothing written.
Banned parties
Only an "E" impressed on an "X" which acts as a background, a coded message for the chosen few invited to the Spanish party of electric cars which began yesterday in Sardinia. Extreme X, the "green rally" circus does not contradict the rules of that area: entry is prohibited. A similar security guard has the task of verifying the passes for "privileged" access to the event authorized by the Ministry of Defense and sponsored by none other than the Sardinian Region, the same that a few days ago filed a civil action against the environmental disaster. in that same polygon where we now play with electric "machines". The NATO camp, the one that hosted the largest exercise in Southern Europe, Noble Jumpe 2023, closed its doors not even a month ago. After a few days, in the same proscenium of Cala Zafferano, the curtains returned. No Leopard this time, the deadly German tanks that roamed like "stars" at last month's great arms fair. Inside the desert tents, placed in the heart of the shooting range, this time the paddocks of the most popular teams of the electric jet set are barricaded, those who have bet everything on the "ecological" Formula One of Alejandro Agag, the favorite son-in-law of Josè Maria Aznar, the powerful former Spanish premier. He, Agag, the military-ecologist of Teulada, by now, here, inside the shooting range, feels like the master of the house, and doesn't send word. The "word" promulgated by the communication headquarters makes no secret of it: "the series of electric off-road races returns to the familiar setting of the Italian Army training area at Capo Teulada". Never before has anyone without stars dared to define "familiar" an area that has always been forbidden to anyone, complete with a peremptory warning: "area subject to armed surveillance". The secret "pact" between the Ministry of Defense and this powerful "Spanish caballero" is a mystery, not only incomprehensible in light of the constraints and prohibitions of a military range, but above all due to the exclusivity of this "very private concession". Entrusting an entire military range of 7,200 hectares to a "private" is incredible, so much so that the Region could theoretically claim, in the light of Article 14 of the Sardinian Statute, the transfer to the regional heritage given that all the real estate of the State, located in Sardinian land, once their state function ceases, they must automatically pass into the availability of the Region.
Tourism among the bombs
No one will dare, even provocatively, to raise the objection. In this operation, in fact, the tourist effigy of Viale Trento is inexplicably the protagonist, as if no one had considered the problem of squandering public money in a kermesse which, until proven otherwise, takes place in an area under trial for disaster environmental, complete with radioactive pollution, see the Thorium of the Milan missiles found by the Cagliari prosecutor's office. A useless and harmful promotion for a military range which, for 365 days a year, is forbidden to Sardinians and others. Off limits to anyone except Agag's "propaganda". In presenting the kermesse he went above and beyond: «Extreme E is a series of radical off-road races in the most remote corners of the planet affected by climate change». They forgot to tell the truth: that area is devastated by bombs and missiles that have demolished the coast and the hinterland of Teulada. Other than climate change.
