In Scampia, among the Vele, a beautiful cat colony has lived for years: hundreds of them cats without an owner who risk dying as soon as the demolitions announced for months of the well-known Vele begin, now dilapidated and already cleared in the area of the northern outskirts of Naples.
After the case reported in a TGR Campania report, the mobilization began, now also by LAV, which appeals to the Mayor and prefect of Naples so that stray animals are moved to a safe place.
We asked the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi and the prefect, Michele Di Bari, not to proceed with the demolition of the Vele di Scampia until the animals still living in the buildings being cleared have been made safe – we read in a note from the WORK. If this did not happen it would be a planned tragedy, the date of a non-natural disaster in this case decided by the public administration.
According to the Anti-Vivisection League, the Mayor and the Prefect should postpone the culling work, thus allowing volunteers more time to save the animals. In fact, it’s been about two months since some volunteers and local associations are trying to capture and relocate the free cats who lived in the Vele area and who found refuge in the now unsafe buildings, and the cats abandoned by those who had to move.
In fact, it is estimated that there are still around one remaining hundreds of cats and captures are made difficult by the many hiding places that the cats can find in buildings.
LAV is requesting a quick response from the institutions, hoping they do not want to stain their hands with the blood of at least a hundred lives because, we remember, killing animals in Italy is a crime and we remind Mayor Manfredi, newly elected President of ANCI and therefore representative of all the Mayors of Italy, that the First Citizen since 1979 is by law responsible for animals on the city territory as well as being the legal owner of stray pets.
