«We are exhaustedhere now you live barricaded at home. We can’t do it anymore. In the morning we open the front door and, when things go well, we find ourselves welcomed puddles of urine. When it goes bad, you can imagine.” The residents of Vicolo Deomini, full Old Town Of They livedthey return to to protest. In recent days they have contacted the mayor That, Tuesday morning, he met them directly into the alley, confronting each other for over an hour. The citizens showed the mayor some amateur videos turn around with the phones documenting episodes of incivility and of petty crime occurred in the last few weeks.
There is a boy, clearly a minor, who in the company of a girl rings the intercom of a building and then he spits on the camera. We see sales, most likely, of drug doses. An individual, hood of his sweatshirt down, wanders around the alley at night holding a knife. A young man, after having urinated against the door in the wood of a building, he takes his smartphone out of his pocket and uses it to photograph his private parts. When someone of residents looks out, complaining even just about the noiseis covered with insultssometimes followed by threats.
After speaking with residents and some traders, the mayor Andrea Ceffa let it be known that he will ask for increase controls: «For some time we had not received reports of critical issues in Vicolo Deomini – explains the mayor –, the residents were right to contact me. There local police will arrange checks more frequently, as had already been done in the past, when many young people had been identified and sanctioned for their conduct. We will also ask for the collaboration of the other law enforcement agencies.”
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