Reggio Calabria, Falcomatà: “On Friday I communicate which streets and squares I close at night, but the government must take responsibility. We will not be able to enforce the ordinance” [VIDEO]

Reggio Calabria, the mayor Falcomatà made a direct facebook to clarify some points after the Dpcm a few days ago

The mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Falcomatà, after the last Dpcm of the Government a few days ago, has made a direct facebook on his official profile this afternoon, the first in a long series as announced by the mayor himself, in which he clarifies some points to the citizens.

Giuseppe Falcomatà He said that on Friday he will communicate which streets and squares will be closed at night, because we remember that in the last Dpcm the Premier Conte left the mayors free to “act” and close streets or squares autonomously.

In this sense, the mayor has stated that the “public closure of streets and squares will take place every day from 9:00 p.m., therefore, a curfew” and that traffic will be allowed and not parking in areas and squares. The government’s objective is to avoid social gatherings and we mayors have taken a clear position in this Dpcm, which discharges the responsibility of identifying the places to be closed but also of carrying out the control, we have reiterated that it is not our job. , order and citizen security is not a task that can be delegated to mayors and we have asked the government to take responsibility for compliance with these ordinances ”.

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“The meeting was positive and developed in a spirit of maximum collaboration between the institutions.” This was stated by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, at the end of the videoconference with the president of Anci, Antonio Decaro, and with the mayors of the metropolitan cities, which was also attended by the Undersecretary of the Interior Achille Variati, the chief of staff of the Ministry of the Interior, Bruno Frattasi, the head of the Department of Public Security, Franco Gabrielli “I am convinced – said the head of the Ministry of the Interior – that the usual close collaboration between the Ministry of the Interior and the mayors, as has already happened with a great sense of responsibility at the beginning of the health emergency, it will allow us to attend to all the problems related to the controls and possible closures of urban areas imposed by the containment of the spread of the Covid 19 virus. In this emergency period, the needs were evaluated established within the individual provincial committees of public order and security, also in For the purpose of i Identify the rates of the Local Police that may integrate the control device, the necessary police forces will be used for the territorial protection services established at all times ”. During the meeting, the commitment requested by the mayors of the necessary resources to guarantee the temporary hiring of members of the Local Police who can support the services in the territory and the controls established within the provincial committees for public order and security. The same commitment was reaffirmed to also provide in 2021 the possibility of confirming the resources allocated to the special fund for overtime of the local police forces.

Reggio Calabria, the words of Mayor Falcomatà during a live Facebook after the last Dpcm [VIDEO]