“Curfew? We might as well hand over the keys to Conte.”

10/22/2020 Health, Italy



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It will be held tomorrow night at 9 pm in the streets of the center of Brescia manifestation of merchants opposed to the latest government measures to combat Covid. Participants, who were seen denied permission by the police headquarters last Saturday, they intend to walk through the streets of the center with candles that they will then leave under the portico of Palazzo Loggia, headquarters of the Brescia City Council. “The new rules are killing commerce,” say exhibitors, especially in Piazza Arnaldo, Brescia’s nightlife area.

«Curfew? We might as well take the keys and give them to Mr. Giuseppe Conte“. The owners don’t beat around the bush premises in piazzale Arnaldo, who say they were exasperated before by Government measures, then give ordinances of the mayor and finally by Damocles sword of a curfew requested by the Region that has already found the favorable opinion of the Ministry of Health. «Already close to midnight does not allow for most of us raise sums that lead to a balanced accountand much less if people must be home by 11 pm get up from the table, if all goes well, at 10:30 p.m. On Friday nights, people arrive at 9:30 pm for dinner, we better not open it, ”says Nicola Pasina, owner of three stores in the city, two of them in Piazzale Arnaldo.

Mauro Fabrizi, around a hundred seats, local and stalls echoes him: «A sensible solution could have been give the opportunity who was seated to enjoy your evening until the bitter end, and clear the squares sending home those who have a “graze”. Instead, it already happens now that we close at midnight and people go out to the street to meet.

The protest manifesto – © www.giornaledibrescia.it

The next step will be house parties.

Regarding the dialogue with the institutions, Pasina comments: “first the confinement, then, once it was reopened on May 23 and 24, the mayor (remember the image that went through the national media with a crowded Arnaldo square, without distancing and with lots people without masks) closes again and, without us ever being able to speak to him, issues an order that forces us to close at midnight until January 31st.

These measures do not work, if not to create unemployment: you explain it to the boy who has to pay the university tuition that he has to stay at home because we cannot afford to continue like this ».

«Be it contagion curve started to climb with the opening of schools – Fabrizi comments – I would not see the problem in the opening of the premises, which has been operating uninterruptedly since the end of May, but in something that I see linked to transport, to a management that is probably not the best.

For their part, providers complain of a situation of total uncertainty For a week, with orders reduced to the bone: “The place cannot be opened and closed by order,” explains one of them. Meanwhile, while waiting for the curfew measure to come into operation in Lombardy, the “funeral” of the locals and of all the businessmen of the sector in Italy has been set for Thursday night in Piazzale Arnaldo: a demonstration with candles, hearse and even the coffin. “We invite the mayor, the administration to come here: we want them to understand our real situation and we want to understand whose side they are on,” is the invitation directed by Pasina, followed by Fabrizi: “We must not harass those who work and who sells, but the irresponsible citizen».