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While the rest of the world closes its doors to the pandemic with new lockdown scenarios, Naples continues to hang by a thread. And it is not just a question of colors. The meeting held at the Prefecture on Monday afternoon was crucial. The public order committee had examined the possible scenarios for the capital of Campania: but the mayor of Magistris, who by law is responsible for decisions to close notoriously crowded areas of the city, instead of closing the crossroads of infection, asked “technical support” To the police and ASL on what to do. The criticism stemmed from the gathering in at least 40 potentially at-risk locations.
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To close or not to close? The mayor of Naples washed his hands. Without deciding: firm in his determination that – as he repeated several times – “if the promenade closes, then many people go to Mergellina or via Scarlatti”. However, it would have been enough to ask the men and women of your municipal police. To all those agents who in the last weekend sweated seven shirts to face the rivers of young and old that crowded, almost always regardless of the legal restrictions and regulations, the squares, parks and streets of Vomero, the promenade and the center historical. . To the point that, unable to solve themselves, the brigade was forced to ask the help of the police and the carabinieri.
But let’s try to recap. Taking a step back that brings us back to Monday afternoon when the prefect Marco Valentini, always attentive to intercepting emergencies in the city of Naples, has convened a committee to discuss the situation that is under everyone’s gaze. Hospitals exhausted, public health on their knees and then people, too many, milling around the streets, openly defying the risks of contagion. Well, from that table (although the gypsy was not taken) the representatives of the Police have explained to the mayor which are the risk areas. Indicating at least forty places in which now even placing the tanks and the leather heads the meetings could be contained. Which? The promenade, the area of the Mergellina chalets; the historic center: via Mezzocannone, via Tribunali, piazza San Domenico Maggiore, piazza del Gesù, Decumani, piazza Bellini, and then piazza Fuga, piazza Vanvitelli, San Martino, as well as the pedestrian areas of via Scarlatti and via Luca Giordano. In turn, the representatives of the Local Health Authorities explained well all the critical issues that have been in the spotlight for weeks: with health facilities that are now saturated and unable to manage the daily routine.
And here is the mayor’s response: “The police forces have shown us about forty roads – De Magistris said yesterday – I have added another 40, and thus we reached 80. Let us imagine the people, who in any case have right to go out wearing a mask, playing the game of goose or hide and seek. After 8 months, I really would have expected a very different health organization at the regional level and many other measures at the social and economic level.
According to de Magistris, “it is believed that mayors should be the lightning rod for those who do not have the courage to make difficult decisions. The regions and the country can only be closed by the government, the regions can close the regions or cities, the mayors can only close a square, a street or some street. But I don’t want to create the funnel effect: in Salerno, where the promenade was closed, the people from the promenade went to the street where the people from the course were. If I close a street, people will go to another street. ‘
And that is why, in this climate of waiting, the last word (perhaps) of 007 sent by the Ministry of Health in the city is now awaited. They will have the opinion that tomorrow, perhaps, he will be able to decree for the city of Naples and, who knows, perhaps for the entire region a measure of generalized and exceptional rigor.
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