Education and safety: the city councilors, Daniele Tarantino (Pd), Dina Dell’Ertole (Mac) and Lorenzo Pascucci (We moderates) asked the city council for a meeting with the police to better understand the nocturnal social fabric of the city , where some boys and girls move without any control, often dirtying and damaging public places, signs of evident discomfort.
The city councilors also intervene in reference to the recent episode recorded at midnight last Saturday, when many citizens, leaving the Guglielmi theater, had the opportunity to notice the Red Cross ambulance in Piazza Matteotti in the midst of a crowd of young people amid shouts and shoving.
Someone tried to divert for fear of getting into a fight, others continued along the sidewalk, however noticing some kids in the throes of worrying fits.
A boy, in a clearly agitated state, half undressed, was threatening revenge and was held back by some friends who were trying to bring him to reason. Boys and girls, many minors. The monument to the partisan was dominated to the top by young people who had gathered in the square.
The brawl involved dozens of boys with pushing, slapping and shouting and one of them ended up in the emergency room.
In short, a Saturday evening worth talking about. An episode that deserves consideration, especially by those who govern the city.
The city councilors, Tarantino, Dell’Ertole and Pascucci ask for a meeting with the police. Councilor Tarantino has repeatedly reported the situation in Via Vignaletta, a street which is a refuge for nightlife waste.
In that case the residents are on a war footing for which the PD councilor has already presented a question in which he highlights the situation facing the small road that connects via Cavour to via Delle Mura nord, in the historic center.
But the problem, evidently, does not only exist in via Vignaletta and we cannot summarize it by listing a few broken bottles, urine and vomit on street corners, broken vases and barriers, vandalism to note. There is something much more worrying behind it: the lives of our young people.
“Our historic center – comments Tarantino – lacks community centres, offers no alternatives and attracts young people who often indulge in alcohol abuse.
The police can intervene, of course, stop some kids in the grip of alcohol, but the underlying problem remains.
What can we, and should we, offer boys and girls?
Only the sale of alcohol and smoking in a city where shops close and only bars and pubs open?
Is it possible to offer these young people alternatives with entertainment events, places of cultural aggregation to spread a model of “healthy nightlife”, in a climate of social, cultural and artistic vitality”? Controls, of course, as a deterrent, but above all to offer valid reasons to experience less squalid evenings.
