ORDIGNI BELLICI CHIMICI NELL’ADRIATICO TRA FANO E CATTOLICA (articolo pubblicato su LA PIAZZA - Cattolica)
Un recente libro-inchiesta pubblicato del giornalista dell’Espresso Gianluca Di Feo intitolato “Veleni di Stato” (Rizzoli 2009), sulla base di documenti tedeschi, inglesi, americani ha sollevato il tema della presenza invisibile ma reale sul territorio Italiano della preoccupante eredità dell’enorme arsenale chimico bellico creato dal regime fascista ed occultato dai tedeschi e di quello disperso dalle forze alleate durante l’ultima guerra (http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/litalia-top-secret-delle-armi-chimiche/2115480//0).
La zona adriatica a cavallo della Linea Gotica è indicata come uno dei luoghi significativi in cui ciò occurred along the coasts of Puglia, the Gulf of Naples, Lake Maggiore, Lombardy, Lazio.
In the chapter "The mustard gas in front of the sun" Di Feo documents the existence of an important deposit in Urbino German chemical weapons captured Italians after the armistice, in December 19, 1943, on direct orders of Hitler, was decided to move, probably in Germany.
summer of 1944, June 21, Hitler himself strictly imposed the immediate evacuation of the store, which began July 6. The complex and dangerous procedure provided for the transportation of chemical weapons up to Pesaro and Fano, and from there to the north, but, with our allies to doors - the attack on the Gothic Line will take place in early September - the ongoing incidents have taken place during travel, and air raids could have catastrophic consequences by blocking the most important railway axis Adriatic, for which Major Meyer, commander of Sonderkommando charge the operation, he chose the lesser evil: to lay the chemical arsenal in the Adriatic.
Three wagons of chemical warheads, equivalent to 84 thousand liters of arsenic, came to Pesaro and were emptied at night into the sea. The same fate followed 4,300 older C500T bombs containing mustard gas, the well-known toxic gas and blister, for a total of 1,316 tons, more than a million liters, which by August 10, 1944 were loaded onto barges, and thrown off.
few years after the end of the war, in a parliamentary question on 20 November 1951 (http://legislature.camera.it/_dati/leg01/lavori/stenografici/sed0801/rsi0801.pdf) the Secretary of the Merchant Shipping Ferdinand Tambroni, in reply to a parliamentary question by Hon. Enzo Capalozza (Mayor of Fano in 1944, then member of the PCI in the post-war senator, judge of the Constitutional Court) concerning "roundup of mustard gas bombs in the stretch of the Adriatic between Pesaro and Ancona," respond in detail, recognizing the 'there is a danger still exists, citing "the accident dei pescatori locali per contaminazione da aggressivo chimico”, riportando le coordinate geografiche della “zona in cui le bombe ad iprite sarebbero state affondate”: quattro punti geografici ubicati in mare, di fronte al porto di Cattolica, a Casteldimezzo ed a Fosso Sejore (tra Pesaro e Fano), a distanze variabili tra uno e tre miglia dalla riva, e due punti sulla terraferma - probabilmente un errore di trascrizione - nei Comuni di Cattolica e San Giovanni in Marignano.
L'inchiesta ufficiale del 1951 lasciava aperti molti interrogativi – non risultano infatti attuate successive campagne militari di indagini – ancora oggi privi di risposte esaurienti: molti ordigni sono stati rinvenuti nel dopoguerra, ma non sappiamo precisamente where and how many there are now steel casings buried by mud and sand on the seabed, they may be recoverable, if over time can corrode releasing toxic substances, they 'know - if this happens - which could have consequences for the environment, to the health of citizens, to the tourist economy.
Recently, in the Marche, the Civic Party LiberiXPesaro together with Italy of Values \u200b\u200burged the City and the Province of Pesaro to seek clarification on the Italian government. This request was granted last June 21 and received the reply from the Ministry of Defence, who said the bombs has recovered and the recovery of the marine areas affected during the years of war, not the discovery of weapons of war in recent times with mustard and upload the resulting "dubious" of further monitoring of the seabed.
To inform the public in October was held at the Hall of the province of Pesaro, a public conference with the participation of De Feo, representatives of municipal and provincial administration, the political laboratory of Molfetta, and ARPA research environment (http://liberixpesaro.blogspot.com/2010/10/una-manifestazione-importante.html).
between Cattolica and Gabicce, however, this passed almost silently, producing only the intervention of some ostrich anxious Di Feo to sue for 'scaremongering' even if you do not know on what basis, you can not prosecute those who bring to light facts and documents of the past, especially if they give us information about our present and warn us about the possible consequences for the future.
For this reason the Catholic ANPI's intention to organize next year a public meeting on the theme with the participation of De Feo and sailors direct witnesses of those events.
Maurizio Castelvetro ( m.castelvetro @ awn.it )
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Aerial photograph showing the six points where the mustard gas bombs were sunk, according to the coordinates provided by the maritime district of the Catholic in 1951.
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