Five Hundred Reasons to Stop “Hands Off Former Skeet Shooting”

“The sword of Damocles continues to hang over the former clay pigeon shooting.” The Citizens’ Committee is back on the attack in defense of an area that has been at the center of controversy for months now. And they do so by announcing a meeting scheduled for today with Captains Regent Alessandro Scarano and Adele Tonnini. A meeting at which a petition will be handed over to the heads of state of San Marino, joined by five hundred residents of the area, in which they express their concerns about invasive interventions in the natural area, with the hope that the building will remain public. “Despite the requests of the population for rethinking and ignoring all alternative use projects and all recreational and cultural initiatives that had their core in this area,” the committee says, “the government is giving itself another extension, a third, to negotiate terms with the private person to whom it intends to provide it. Since “we consider it completely wrong to steal this territory, which has great ecological, historical, social and associative value, from the inhabitants of Citta Castle and all of San Marino, we requested and obtained a meeting with the captains regents.” .

The Public Committee for the Protection of the Former Skeet Shooting Range was established last May in response to the need to protect valuable naturalistic grounds and to support the public use of the former Skeet Shooting Building. “Despite the negligence of various governments that have not renovated the building,” recalls the committee, “this is the site of the Giunta youth association, this is a space for the inclusion of the disabled, this is a place chosen by various associations. for cultural activities, socialization and rediscovery of the territory. The area, located near the edge of the mountain, is also a green lung that is visited daily by the population, who can enjoy both a small forest and a breathtaking panorama in the clearing in front of the composition.”

The residents of the area, as well as those who visit the building, want “the area to remain a common asset accessible to all San Marino residents. The structure needs to be repaired, but there is no degradation, because the population continues to live from below and use this space. Tourism activities with low environmental impact should be promoted here in spaces restored for the benefit of society. In addition, we do not think that one or more resolutions can be a legitimate tool to transfer, for decades, part of our small territory to private individuals.” The area, the very one in which the intentions of the government should soon build a residential complex.