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Less than an hour after the opening of the Christmas Fair, the producers and traders who had to sell their products at the Craiova fair were closed one by one by the Dolj Public Health Directorate. According to Gazeta de Sud, the merchants said they did not even open the stalls properly because they were brought “clean” by the police, ITM Dolj inspectors and DSP Dolj employees. The latter allegedly told them to close the blind, because the mayor’s office is not in order with the authorization to operate the fair. Therefore, all the houses in Buzești Square and Mihai Viteazu Square are currently closed.
“We are producers. I come from Olt. We paid, we rented a house and today, at the opening of the fair, we began to expose our products for sale. It was not long before the economic police, the ITM and the DSP Dolj started The latter told us to pack our bags and close because the city hall does not have an operating permit. We are fine with all the documents, the problems are from the City Council. I do not understand what our fault is, we are caught in the middle. I understand that The entire fair is closed. We pay the rent and we are in such a situation. I understood from the mayor’s office that they delivered all the documents, but the DSP did not approve them, “explained Stela Florescu, producer, quoted by Gazeta de Sud.
Representatives of the Craiova City Council, however, were unable to provide further details related to the DSP controls, although the Christmas Fair was organized by the municipality.
“I heard that there were some checks, but I do not know more. It is possible to have checks in merchants, but they are also individual from various institutions. The mayor’s office did not receive any notification about it. We took care of turning on the lights,” said Marina Andronache, chief of the Image Service of the City of Craiova, according to Gazeta de Sud.
In Craiova, the Christmas lights were turned on on Saturday night.
In Craiova, local authorities turned on the Christmas lights on Saturday night, writes Agerpres. The Mayor of Craiova, Lia Olguţa Vasilescu, wrote on Facebook that, this year, it is not possible to talk about organizing a Christmas Fair, as there will be no more shows, skating rink, children’s town, etc.
“This year we cannot talk about the Christmas Fair, because we no longer organize shows, we no longer have an ice rink, a children’s town, a carousel, interactive workshops, etc. We try to keep the magic of the Christmas holidays, but, at least through the Christmas lighting (…) ”, wrote Olguţa Vasilescu on her Facebook page.
According to the public lighting framework contract concluded a few years ago, the Craiova City Council pays for the assembly and disassembly service, which in recent years has cost around 1.2 million lei.
Libertatea recalls that, two weeks ago, when the organizers of the Christmas Fair in Sibiu said they would cancel the event due to the coronavirus pandemic, the mayor of Craiova announced that he would not surrender.
