Reggio Emilia Not even on May 1st, the residents of the neighborhood near the historic station were able to break away from the spiral of crime that hovers in the area, which has long been the focus of targeted checks by the police.
It wasn’t even 7pm on Wednesday when the citizens’ attention was attracted by the screams coming from Viale 4 Novembre: those who rushed to the street to check what had happened could see the financial police, the carabinieri and a ambulance. «We heard screams – explains a resident -. We looked out to understand what was happening. We had time to notice some foreigners who were arguing and then the patrols intervened.”
In the meantime, among the many inconveniences that those who live in the neighborhood suffer every day is the wild abandonment of waste. An incorrect behavior that will be sanctioned and that we will try to eliminate with the arrival of the cameras.
In fact, in several streets close to the historic station, it is easy to come across an open-air landfill that does not only concern small objects. In fact, it is easy to notice furniture among the piles of waste, such as beds complete with mattresses or chairs, not to mention computer monitors and piles of documents left on the street. In the streets you also come across bags containing clothes, fixtures, black bags that stand out in the center of the street. In short, the residents are exasperated.
In Via Don Alai, residents frequently witness the arrival, on board a van, of groups of people who unload bulky waste from the means of transport and then leave it on the street. «Between Via Eritrea and Viale 4 Novembre we are always targeted by waste and, although collection takes place constantly, the phenomenon is rampant and other measures are needed to ensure that we return to a civilized situation», explains a resident.
The Viale 4 Novembre committee also intervenes in the case of wildly abandoned waste, asking for the intervention of the environmental councilor Carlotta Bonvicini. «On Via Don Alai – explains councilor Bonvicini – an intervention has already been carried out to relocate the bins and carry out widespread checks of both residential and commercial users. An important sanction had already been made a few months ago. I believe that the only solution is to install a series of cameras that will have to be managed and viewed by the local police. There are already many of them at the station, but it will also be a question of positioning them in the lateral points to combat the abandonment of waste. Since this became a crime that provides for criminal sanctions (October 2023), the management of the cameras must be linked to the control activity of the police force. This has slowed down the process of implementing the so-called camera traps a bit, but they are on the way , also at the ecological oasis of the monumental cemetery. I would also like to point out that in Via Don Alai we carried out a joint inspection with Iren and the residents which led to the decision to move the bins to Viale 4 Novembre”. L
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