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Kilometers of cars queuing with hundreds of people queuing to enter a new shopping center opened today in Rome. On Black Friday and especially in times of Covid and anti-assembly rules that will be respected. Looking at the photos of the car snake in Laurentina, on the outskirts of the capital, one can only imagine the crowd that may have stormed the newborn mega store Maximo. And in fact the crowd was there, since the early morning when Shopping Addict groups were formed attracted by the inauguration of the “large shopping center” with its 65 thousand paintings, three floors and 165 stores including The Irish Primark lands in the Eternal City first time. In addition to a hypermarket, 40 bars and restaurants and a gym.
Skipped distance
A ribbon cutting at the same time as the Friday of the discounts before Christmas. There were entire families and many young people on free nights out in the afternoon deprived of the weekend nightlife. All together “distracted”, that is, without thinking too much, or in some cases not at all, about the coronavirus and the risk of contagion even in a region of the yellow belt, therefore semi-open, such as Lazio. With the masks a little up and a lot down. And with social distances most of the time he jumped.
The mega store has set the entrance ceiling to 5,000 people at the same time in compliance with the anti-coronavirus regulations, but the security measure between one customer and another was impossible to maintain.
“Don’t let your guard down”
Negative comments from the Minister of Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato, who reiterated the need to “not lower our guard”: “Behaviors like those seen in Rome in large shopping centers are absurd. It’s like putting gasoline on in the virus engine. If we don’t want to find ourselves shutting down everything in fifteen days, we must avoid it.
Many criticisms on social networks where the images of the inauguration bounced. There was no shortage of accusations against Mayor Virginia Raggi and her decision to open the facilities at this time. Controversy also on the part of the opposition to the unions that speak of politics inclined “to the interests of the commercial multinationals”.
“Unrealized” public works
“The shopping center opened without finishing the public works”, declared Cristina Grancio, leader of the Misto group in the Capitoline Assembly, when commenting on the inauguration of Laurentino’s megastore.
“A motion of the Capitoline Assembly, in which I refused to participate, allowed the opening of the Maximum in spite of not having carried out the planned public works – he said -. It is evident that in Rome when the strong powers decide to submit the needs of the citizens, signed in the urban agreements, they find all the political forces that support them. “The works have not been carried out in favor of the citizenship that the Proponent of the Urban Recovery Plan, which was granted the construction of the Maximum, had to carry out to open to the public – reiterated the councilor -. What will change to postpone the execution of public works until after the opening of the shops if not the lack of the administration of the private interest lever to comply with the commitments? ».
The response from the Capitol comes around the corner: «Pru Laurentino, an approved motion that gives the green light to the opening of the Máximo shopping center. Campidoglio: protection of the public interest, guarantee of completion of public works and safeguarding of 2,500 jobs ».
