A couple of hours after the debate promoted by the CISL on security, 10 meters from where the city’s mayoral candidates and the public sat in Piazza Secchi, a new episode of violence lit up the night of the station district with the blue flashing lights of the police forces. ‘order. A group of people started a fight in the underground garage of the condominium at the intersection of via Turri and via Giovanni Vecchi, and then managed to escape before the police could stop them. A resident says: “More violent fights and drug dealing here in our garages, under the Chinese restaurant. I heard very loud screams, the sound of bars, shouting… I called 113, but they weren’t answering. So I went down to the street to see what was happening happening and I met three police patrols busy with a foreigner who was probably drunk. I reported the problem and asked them to accompany me to check the condition of the garage. They got out with me, but those people managed to escape: they were two women and three. maybe four men.” The woman also remembers that her elderly mother, just under the building some time ago, was attacked by thugs. “Objectively I believe that we now need a municipal administration that takes note of the situation – continues the woman – and decides to apply the laws by distinguishing between good and bad. It is enough to understand the ‘desperate’. The real desperate are us who risk beatings or insults because maybe we see what they don’t want us to see. We are tired of dealing, drug use, degradation and filth, fights and violence.” Meanwhile, Lucia Sangiorgi, member of the Cres (Safe Reggio Emilia Committee) and resident in the neighborhood since 2000, comments: “We residents are exhausted and disheartened… We are unable to leave the house even for a single occasion in five years: not even to meet those he will be the next mayor of our city. There were 40 chairs in Piazza Secchi, then dozens of people standing, I recognized some of them or I don’t know them but there could have been a dozen at most if I exclude the following. candidates. What’s worse than resignation? I myself, seeing that all our efforts and requests are in vain, am sometimes tempted to throw in the towel.”
