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Italian Couple Seek Asylum in Switzerland
"I didn't have any other choice than to seek to leave, its my instinct to survive that has forced me to act," Sergio Sedia told AFP of the environmental asylum request.
"The (Italian) government has not protected my right to health, and in this area people are dying of cancers caused by tonnes of chemical and toxic waste illegally dumped here for more than 20 years."
Sergio and his wife Giulia live in the town of Cimitile, in the heart of the area dubbed the "Triangle of Death" by the British medical journal The Lancet when it reported in 2004 on considerably higher cancer and deformity rates than for other parts of the Campania region around Naples.
In the heart of some of Italy's best farm land, the area delimited by the towns of Nola, Marigliano and Acerra has been used by the Cammora mafia to secretly dump thousands of tonnes of industrial waste since the 1980s, according to environmental groups.
The mafia chokehold over the region's landfills, and their opposition to new incinerators, has recently led to a garbage crisis in Naples with residents burning trash that has piled up in the streets.
"This area is nearly entirely agricultural, there are no factories, but has mortality rates for cancers linked to pollution higher than the national average. Here one doesn't die of a heart attack or an accident, but from tumors," said Sedia, 34, who works in the finance industry.
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