“Covid, the mismanagement of the emergency is not the fault of the people …”

Viterbo – Umberto Ciucciarelli (Tuscia sociale): “We want to give a voice to all citizens and workers” – PHOTOS AND VIDEO

by Daniele Camilli

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Viterbo – Banners, slogans and smoke bombs. And at least a hundred people in the square. For the demonstration organized by a spontaneous committee of youth and workers against the Dpcm of the Giuseppe Conte government. Tonight, in the town square of Viterbo, under the palaces of the priors and the prefecture.

A peaceful and orderly demonstration in full compliance with Covid regulations. In organizational terms, it goes back to the world of the social right of Viterbo.

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Viterbo – The demonstration against the Dpcm in the town square

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“Today’s demonstration – said Umberto Ciucciarelli of the Tuscia sociale association – aims to give a voice to all citizens and all workers who have suffered one more injustice from this government. Today we are here, in front of this municipality, because we reject these new closures and this false closure ”.

In the square, next to Ciucciarelli, also Claudio Taglia, also from Tuscia sociale.

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“We are not deniers,” added Ciucciarelli-. We are not in any way. We want to affirm a very clear principle, that guilt, the responsibility for the mismanagement of the health emergency does not lie with the Italian people but with this government ”.

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Viterbo – Umberto Ciucciarelli de la Tuscia social

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The protesters arrive around 5:30 p.m. and spread out across the square to avoid the crowds. Then, in a row, they pass under the Palazzo dei Priori, where the municipal administration is located. They open the banners and raise the flags. Ciucciarelli takes the floor immediately. You have a megaphone at your disposal. In front of him a hundred protesters. Several spectators who stop to the sides of the event. Others seem to listen from the nearby bar. The climate is relaxed, the maximum discipline. No hugs or handshakes, with the masks that go under the chin just for smoking. Surveillance of the square, police and carabinieri.

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Viterbo – The demonstration against the Dpcm in the town square

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“Sacrifices have been asked of the Italian people – continued Ciucciarelli -. He was asked to abide by rules never seen before. However, they had to improve public transport and they did not. Intensive care was going to increase and the expected number was not reached. Not to mention the schools. Some have been closed, compromising the future of our children who have the sacrosanct right to an education. In other schools there are still no teachers. And student transportation has not been improved. The second wave was largely predictable. What concrete has been done to counteract it? “.

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Viterbo – Claudio Taglia di Tuscia social

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In the square, near via San Lorenzo, there are Also a couple of mothers, who apparently did not seem to be part of the realities that organized the demonstration, who called for the reopening of schools and spoke of freedom. With many posters in hand. Like in the 60s. In the United States. Some merchants are also seen among the protesters. There are also some small entrepreneurs. All of Viterbo.

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Viterbo – Mothers in the town square

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There are three banners. “Support to companies and workers”, “Refreshments immediately”, “Without Dpcm, without confinement”. At one point a smoke bomb is lit. One pair in total. The last one at the end of the race.

In addition to Conte, the protesters also point the finger at the mayor of the city Giovanni Arena. The slogan “freedom, freedom”, chanted aloud under the Palazzo dei Priori, is everything for Arena. By closing the squares and taking the hard line.

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Viterbo – Fabio Cima

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Ciucciarelli does not skimp even on the management of the ASL of Viterbo. “We would like to hear from the director Daniela Donetti – the exponent of Tuscia sociale begins – How is it possible, in the face of a perennial shortage of real beds, the ambition to transform the only hospital we have, the Belcolle, into a Covid hospital? This, in a territory like ours, does not make sense ”.

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Viterbo – The demonstration against the Dpcm in the town square

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Finally the last intervention. It’s from Fausto Cima, one of the organizers. A worker. “We are here to be told that it is our fault, that in the summer we went on vacation, to play football, to the disco, to have a snack. But the fault is not of the town ”.

“Other months of forced closures – added Cima – we cannot afford the luxury. This would devastate the economy of our city and our country. And at that moment the emergency would run the risk of becoming a true social catastrophe. We demand, and we have every right to do so, immediate and alternative solutions to masked lockdown closures. There are no non-essential activities. There are only people who have the right to work and bring bread home ”.

Daniele Camilli

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Multimedia: Photo Gallery: The demonstration in the town square – Video: “The mismanagement of the emergency is the fault of the government”

November 7, 2020