Milan, 31 July (LaPresse) – Private property developers and real estate funds ‘are exerting pressure on the highest institutional offices’ in Milan, ‘including Mayor Sala,’ to ‘obtain approval for million-euro projects, threatening otherwise to suspend investments and take legal action.’ This was written by investigating magistrate Mattia Fiorentini in the pre-trial detention order on urban planning. According to the magistrate, documents, chats and evidence gathered by the financial police during the investigation show that in Milan ‘everyone, professionals, politicians and entrepreneurs, were aware that building regulations were routinely bent to satisfy the interests of investors’. This system was so widespread that it was almost “institutionalised”, as demonstrated by the later failed, to have the “Salva Milano” law approved by Parliament, which would have “legitimised, through authentic ex post interpretations” the “linguistic and technical contortions” underlying “illegitimate” building permits and the “deforestation of morphological rules” on the height, volume and distance of new buildings.
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