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Cancer cluster blamed on powerful Vatican radio transmitters
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
Electronic Telegraph, Wednesday April 19, 2000
RADIO transmitters operated by the Vatican are under official
investigation over claims that electromagnetic pollution is
causing cancer among local residents.
Vatican Radio programmes are broadcast all over the world from a
forest of antennae at Santa Maria di Galera, near Cesano, a
northern suburb of Rome. Residents have reported the complex to
magistrates dozens of times and doctors who examined the cause
of 7,500 deaths over six years in Cesano found the incidence of
tumours was 30 per cent higher than the national average.
A separate inquiry by the Lazio region found that electromagnetic
energy in the area was almost three times the legal limit.
Francesco Ferrante, the director general of Italy's Legambiente,
or environmental league, said people living near the antennae had
found their computers switched on by themselves, telephone
conversations were "invaded" by radio transmissions and watching
television was impossible.
The Legambiente claimed that 60 per cent of deaths in the area in
1996 were due to cancer. Lucia Venturi, a scientific specialist
with the organisation, called on the Italian state to intervene
to protect the health of its citizens.
Yesterday it was reported that official paperwork sent by the
investigating magistrates to three Vatican representatives had
been returned on the grounds that the antennae complex enjoyed
extra-territorial status, leaving them immune from judicial
sanctions.
Lawyers acting for the Vatican, including Eugenio Pacelli, a
nephew of Pope Pius XII, pointed out that, under the Lateran Pact
those who exercise Vatican activities are not punishable under
Italian law. A 1951 accord also recognises the extra-
territoriality of the complex. The lawyers added that there was
no legal precedent recognising any damaging effect to health of
electromagnetic waves.
However, a local councillor insisted: "The privilege of extra-
territoriality is not valid. The constitutional right to
people's health has to be respected."
Magistrates have now asked Italy's Foreign Ministry to intervene
to prevent diplomatic deadlock over the case.
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