Mondello, Italo Belga appeals to the TAR: the report of contradictions from the Mida case to the Region's dinners at the Terrazze restaurant.

The battle of Mondello has entered the courtroom. The company Italo Belga has today filed a petition to the TAR against the act with which the Department of Territory has put an end to the century-long management of Mondello beach. In its petition, Italo Belga refers to the Mida affair and the institutional events that the Region has held at the Terrazze, a restaurant in the old bathing establishment. This restaurant is at the center of a new attack by regional deputy Ismaele La Vardera against the president of the Region Schifani and the councilor for Productive Activities Edy Tamajo.

The company announced it from day one: we will appeal against the revocation to the TAR. The passage to the administrative judges is significant not only for the company but for all the actors, from the Region to the Municipality, who are trying to understand how the upcoming bathing season in Mondello will be managed. Right now, the Department of Territory is preparing the temporary tenders to replace the management by Italo Belga, but if the latter were to prevail at the TAR, the same tenders would have to be suspended. A web in which the Municipality is also involved, although not in a decision-making role: the knot, in the case of the municipal administration, is to understand who will carry out the cleaning and maintenance services that had until now been performed by Italo Belga.

In its petition, the company explicitly cites the Mida affair, the company that manages the restaurant le Terrazze under the assignment of Italo Belga and which is one of the two reasons on which the Region has relied for the revocation of the concession. Mida allegedly operated without authorizations since 2023, but the Region in the following years held some important events within the Terrazze, including a dinner for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Italo Belga refers to these events in its petition, stating that it is necessary to clarify the position of the company Mida. For Italo Belga, Mida has been incorrectly described as illegal when in reality it operated with a valid authorization, the duration of which coincided with that of the main concession.

Italo Belga then cites the events organized by the Region, arguing that it has always been aware of the validity of the authorizations to Mida, and that this validity has been recognized by using the contested spaces for institutional events as illegal in the revocation resolution. This contradiction, the company concludes, would render the reason for expiration cited by the Region unfounded. In other words, for Italo Belga, the Region itself contradicts itself by using a property that it defines as "illegal".

On the same contradiction, but changing the interpretation, Ismaele La Vardera insists in a video shared on Facebook. Citing articles from La Sicilia, he says: "Even the Charleston (the Terrazze restaurant) was without authorizations and President Schifani organized an institutional dinner right there to send a message, because nothing happens by chance in those buildings." La Vardera then calls out Tamajo, who held some electoral meetings at the Terrazze: "He might not have known it was illegal - he says - but now that he knows, can we find out how much he paid, if he paid, for the events?"