A two-headed lizard. It was immortalized by the inhabitants of the small Caserta village of Tora and Piccilli, in the heart of the Roccamonfina Volcano Regional Park, as it crossed the main square. The discovery has aroused much concern and has returned to turn the spotlight on the damage resulting from the pollution produced in past decades by the Garigliano nuclear power plant in Sessa Auruca, which is only a few kilometers away as the crow flies.
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A two-headed lizard. The inhabitants of the small village of Caserta have immortalized it Tora and PiccilliIn the heart of the Roccamonfina Volcano Regional Park, as he crossed the main square. The find has aroused much concern and has returned to turn the spotlight on the damage deriving from the pollution produced, in the past decades, by nuclear power plant of Garigliano, in Sessa Auruca, which is only a few kilometers away as the crow flies.
Over the years, in fact, a series of animals were born in the area, above all calves and lambs, with two heads or with others severe malformations, from hermaphroditism to ankylosis, as he had incessantly denounced in the 80s by the lawyer Marcantonio Tibaldi, who had collected dozens of photos. “What we have witnessed in recent years is frightening - explained the lawyer in an article that appeared in issue no. 6 of Modus vivendi, monthly of the National Federation of Greens - La mortality from leukemia and cancer it increased exponentially in all three regions exposed to radiation from the Garigliano power plant: in the province of Latina, in southern Lazio and in Abruzzo “.
On the case of the two-headed lizard, as reported by the blog Montesantacroce Giulia Casella, president of the Legambiente club of Sessa Aurunca: "in recent years the various governments and regional institutions have always refused, unlike what happened in Germany, to establish a causal link between the radioactive emissions of the Garigliano nuclear power plant, the increase in tumor incidence and genetic malformations in animals".
But the double-headed lizard is not necessarily connected to all this. It could also be a "mistake of nature". Policephaly, although rare, is widely documented in humans and many animals, especially reptiles, caused by incorrect separation of embryos during a twin birth. But recalling, in this regard, precisely the scientific studies made in the 80s by the lawyer Tibaldi and Alfredo Petteruti, Casella peremptorily concludes: "as far as I'm concerned, I have always been convinced, it is my opinion, certainly not an assertion scientific, which this link exists".
Alarmism also among the anti-nuclear committees of the Coast, such as Garigliano reaction. "This is an episode - underlines Valerio Mozzillo of Cellole - that arouses concern: it was twenty years, in fact, that there had been no news of the kind". Rereading Cristaldi's words, in fact, the doubt that there is a hand of man and his pollution in the deformation of the two-headed reptile arises spontaneously: "even if we do not want to use the tones of the catastrophe, the harmful effects recorded in the area are undeniable and sufficiently documented“, With the serious suspicion, indeed,“ of a focus on controls which in recent years would seem to have waned. While most of the surveys, pertaining to the managing body, Enel, do not appear to be able to provide the elements necessary to know with certainty what the current state of health of the area is. Also because there would still be those who start from the false postulate that, once the plant is closed, the problem is largely solved".
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