Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milan, speaks again about the future of San Siro following the news of the opening of an investigation file, without any hypothesis of a crime and without any suspects, regarding the sale of the area:
"It is a necessary act when there is a complaint from citizens (in this case, the Sì Meazza committee and the Jdentità Bianconera Foundation, ed.). Let's say things as they are: we are talking about a Model 45, which is the register of acts that do not constitute a report of a crime.
"There is talk about the price at which we will sell San Siro," Sala continued. "Point one: we had the valuation carried out by the Revenue Agency, which is a state body. I don't know who else we could have had do it... I don't know, should we have asked NASA? Objectively, beyond the Revenue Agency, there is no one more qualified."
Sala added:
"Point two. Regarding the speculations I read about, the possibility that public money will be used to contribute to the costs of demolishing and rebuilding San Siro—on a scale from zero to one hundred—is zero. There is absolutely no possibility. Regarding the issue of environmental remediation, beyond the fact that no one knew what needed to be done and that no one has ever conducted borehole testing, every time an area is transferred in Milan, there is a remediation issue that needs to be verified. Today, we do not know."
"The real issue seems to be another. There is a party, entirely virtual, of ‘no’ people, who do not run for office—otherwise, they would get one percent of the vote—but who want to influence the administration and the mayor. In nine years, I have demonstrated that the mayor does not let himself be influenced and never will. If in two years the Milanese prefer a mayor who is afraid of his own shadow and does absolutely nothing, they will choose them. That being said, I believe we will request a meeting with the Court of Auditors and the Prosecutor’s Office. It would also be useful to have the Revenue Agency, which carried out the valuation."
