Some 14 evictions have already
been carried out in a Rome pittance-rent scandal and 17 others
have been lined up, the city council said Monday.
A task force named by Rome Commissioner Francesco Paolo
Tronca has "started proceedings to free 31 properties,
proceedings which have already been concluded in 14 cases,"
sources said.
All 31 are council homes in the historic centre, they said.
Tronca recently said the cases in Rome of city-owned
apartments in luxury neighborhoods being rented for a pittance
must be cleaned up "definitively".
"I believe this is the strong commitment that the
extraordinary administration needs to make," the former Milan
prefect said.
"Specialist groups are working with determination in the
knowledge that the road is certainly uphill and the task complex
and difficult," Tronca continued.
"We are faced with a situation that is unclear and we could
also be faced with an underground phenomenon that I don't know
about. We'll see, it's all to be discovered."
Earlier, the extraordinary commissioner appointed
last year following the ouster of Mayor Ignazio Marino over an
expenses scandal said he had uncovered several bizarre cases of
flats owned by the city being rented at rock-bottom prices.
He cited the examples of a flat in the Borgo Pio historic
district near the Vatican being rented out at 10.29 euros a
month, another in the central Corso Vittorio Emanuele rented at
24.21 euros a month, and another with a view over the Imperial
Forums rented at 23.65 euros a month.
"We will do everything possible (to get to the bottom of
the situation) in quick acceleration and certainly in the
knowledge that it will be a chrono-climb...We'll certainly do
our best," Tronca continued.
"We'll see if we make it, it doesn't depend on what we have
discovered but on what we discover from here on," he said.
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