The revolt of the olive trees in the Selargius countryside was not enough to stop the extermination of plants that has been underway for some time.
This morning at dawn the workers appointed by Terna - after a sit-in in which around a hundred people tried to protect the roots of the trees ready to be uprooted - gave the coup de grace by uprooting the six olive trees from the land under forced expropriation .
There where, together with other hectares of cultivated countryside, the final part of the Tyrrhenian link is concentrated - the double submarine cable in the center of the Mediterranean which will transport the electricity produced in Sardinia to the rest of the Peninsula - with two electrical stations which will be added to the current power plant.
Even the "no" to the sale of the land by the owner, Gianluca Melis, who together with his sister and brother inherited a small plot of productive land in the locality of Su Pardu, did not help.
«This is the arrogance and arrogance of those who stop at nothing – shouts the spokesperson of the Selargino No Tyrrhenian link committee, Rita Corda – and it is the same arrogance that is spoken of in the appeal to the Head of State presented by the Municipality of Selargius and also declared by the president of the Region Alessandra Todde who on several occasions has agreed with the protesting local communities. But then no one intervenes and Terna is left to act undisturbed: it's not possible. Where is the sovereignty of the people, of local authorities and of the autonomous region?", asks Corda. He adds: "The silence and absence of the institutions have become unbearable, politics has never reached such low levels."
Meanwhile, from Monday the activists announce a permanent protest on the land in front of the Terna station. "We will plant more trees, it will become the symbol of our Sardinian resistance." And they add: "We will file a complaint with the police for this latest abuse."
