This is no ordinary rejection story. It is much more, starting with the protagonists. There is the multinational. Powerful, untouchable, bread and butter for one of the poorest territories in Italy, the Sulcis. There are the top managers, those of yesterday and today. There are the former trade unionists, those who suddenly became consultants of the multinational and, then, sensationally business partners. Above all, there is Sardinia, once again prey and destination for the trafficking of less noble waste, for wanting to be guaranteed.
A name, a guarantee – The story unfolds between encrypted contracts, hidden in Swiss safes and in the very personal archives of the protagonists. Money, many, millions and millions of euros, transformed into a whirlwind of business and poisons. Industrial waste, dangerous, declared as a "good thing" for productions of which nobody knows anything. The mechanism that emerges is unprecedented and at the same time perverse: there are the processing scraps of one of the most controversial factories in the mining-metallurgical history of Sardinia, Portovesme Srl. A name given to it with the sole intention of mitigating the weight of the multinational that behind it: the Swiss Glencore.
A tortured land - History, here, in this land tortured by poisons and fulminating aerosols, leaves no margins. The pollution between Portovesme and its surroundings has dug deep, has invaded the bowels of the earth, transformed into toxic-noxious landfills, sometimes illegal, sometimes created thanks to controversial authorizations. The water tables are perpetually injected with leachates of which nothing is known, of which little is known. Difficult to trust those who for decades have escaped, in one way or another, the obligation of reclamation. The story, that of these days, uncovered by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Cagliari, is much more than an environmental investigation. The judicial procedural phases aim at the horizon of the closure of the investigations. In a few days, the 20 days within which the suspects will be able, if they wish, to present justifications or repentance will expire.
