“Unauthorized building”, traffic police closes Virgin gym

Virgin gym stamps. This morning the municipal police closed the Gioacchino Ventura sports center, very popular in Palermo, because they allegedly found “abuses in construction.” Abuses that would have “endangered the building’s statics” and would have “made it possible to pay less development costs”.

For the gym, which opened in the city last year and attracted thousands of members, the kidnapping was triggered. The Municipal Police, through the specialized Building Police and Judicial Police Units of the Public Ministry, implemented a decree ordered by the magistrate. “After a long and complex investigation – read a note – it became known that a Day for renovations had been presented to the municipal offices. In reality, the intervention of the building involved a restructuring with an increase in the useful surface of the building and a different exterior form that required a building license, thus omitting the payment of urbanization costs of about 60 thousand euros and an unfair advantage ”.

That is, an amount of urbanization expenses less than the one owed. All this, the municipality’s note continues, “with the participation of public administration officials, who would have considered the presented Day legitimate, having agreed that the charges be paid in a lower amount than the amount owed”. Other investigations ordered by the Public Ministry also revealed “the existence of criticalities in the structural calculations that compromise the static nature of the building. Basically, the pre-existing structure would not be adequate according to anti-seismic standards to support the load of the new body of the building, with the consequent risk to public safety. In the same operation, the bank accounts of the company that owns the property were also seized for an amount equivalent to about 60 thousand euros, as a result of the unfair benefit obtained by the non-payment of the concession rights “.

About twenty people gathered in front of the gym entrance, among clients and fitness instructors, while the gym staff carried drinks and other perishable materials with trolleys. “What the heck now? I’ll call the bank to stop paying the annual subscription fee, ”says one customer. Based on what has been learned, Virgin will write to all members to provide the necessary clarification.

We express our gratitude to the Municipal Police for the investigation activities carried out under the coordination of the Public Ministry for the operation aimed at combating administrative infractions and building abuses, which would have compromised the safety of those who frequent the structure. Once again, the work of attention against those who believe they live in free zones of the city has yielded excellent results. The municipal administration intends to become a civil party in the process ”. Thus, Mayor Leoluca Orlando and Deputy Mayor Fabio Giambrone reported the kidnapping by the municipal police commander, Vincenzo Messina.

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