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Municipal buildings granted free of charge to entrepreneurs who intend to open a commercial activity guaranteeing the recruitment of residents of the neighborhood. Then concerts in drug trafficking squares, lessons against the mafia in primary and secondary schools and journalism courses for secondary students. Here are the projects on which Virginia Raggi would like to build the revitalization of the outskirts of the capital, in the last semester of her term as mayor. Presenting ideas and objectives today during a press conference on Capitol Hill, together with the delegate on the periphery, the journalist Federica Angeli recently hired in the team of the mayor grillina.
“In recent years we have opted for the redevelopment of the periphery, for the remodeling of roads, green areas. We have concentrated on bringing a system back to work in ordinary and automatic mode, now we are starting to do more ”. Raggi said, vindicating the work carried out in San Basilio, where he recently attended with Angeli and Don Antonio Coluccia, the parish priest of the neighborhood who has long been involved in the fight against drugs. “We tried to reverse the course even with minor activities, such as repairing and turning on the lighting. Every night the drug traffickers and lookouts would turn off the light and we would put it back on the next day. We worked in the parks, recreated public spaces, the famous whale garden We have restored decorum. “.
What is the added value expected from the arrival of Federica Angeli? Let us remember that his tours of the suburbs have also raised some controversy, among those who accused Raggi of moving for the sole purpose of the elections and those who felt removed from the confrontations started with the citizens. “With his outgoing character he manages to add people – explains Raggi – We need people to be protagonists of their life and of their city, reporting problems and helping us when we intervene to take care of their neighborhood. A choral process in which Federica is working, together with the councilors and the presidents of the town halls to improve what has been done ”.
The projects: anti-mafia and journalism
“We have been arguing with Mayor Raggi for two years” then Angeli explains taking the floor. “We wrote down some projects and talked to everyone, committees and associations, before presenting them. We are going to change the face in some suburbs in an incisive and heavy way, we needed the approval of those who live in those neighborhoods.”. Here it is specifically. “We signed two Protocols, one with the National Association of Magistrates and the other with the National Press Association for two prevention projects” explains the Raggi delegate.
“With the Anm we have signed an agreement that will allow us to teach anti-mafia lessons in primary and secondary schools, through a direct approach, children will be able to learn more about the crime map in Rome and the state of the trials. The other is’ Mission Reporters, fellow journalists from Article 21 and No Bavaglio lent themselves to give us a hand for the older boys. It is a 40-hour journalism course, with the possibility of internships in various newspapers ”.. The objective is “To help young people through journalism to talk about the suburb, even with an internship in various newspapers. So that they understand that they can do other things besides the electrician or the plumber, which are very important and respectable jobs, but they can try to think that there is also another side to work ”.
Work and art in the markets
There are two other projects “one step away from realization”. The first is called “work ennobles the neighborhood”. The administration has mapped closed businesses in the suburbs, on premises owned by the Capitol, and now intends to make them available to businessmen in the neighborhoods. “We want to open those shutters and give free space for 24 months to those who want to open commercial activities in those darker parts of the city, where crime has always ruled.” Not on the Ostia quay, as it were, but on Piazza Gasparri, known for its frequent commercial activities. However, on one condition, that the new business owners hire people from the neighborhood. “L’idea – explains Angeli – is to obtain consent for criminal activities by giving people a chance ”
Another project in process is called ‘Spaccio arte’. The idea is quite simple: fill the squares normally in the hands of organized crime for activities such as drug dealing, music and exhibitions. Large outdoor events that involve the neighborhood and take square meters from the mafias. “The events that are usually held at the Circus Maximus or in central locations will take them to the outskirts to annoy drug traffickers and make the suburbs feel like protagonists of art and beauty.”
Why not intervene first with similar projects in the peripheries? “What we focused a lot on was a major remodeling of the periphery. We worked a lot in green areas, for example, with two large contracts awarded for 48 and 60 million” Ray clarified. “We have returned a system to the ordinary. Now, on this basis, we can start to do other things. To bring beauty.”.
