I want to make a strong and clear premise: Fano is – and remains – a safe city. A place where it is desirable to live, certainly excluding some critical issues that the next mayor will have to undertake to resolve.
For this reason, I categorically reject to the sender the narrative that the candidate for mayor of the Lega Serfilippi has been trying to spread in recent weeks, according to which Fano is no longer a safe city, besieged by gangs of criminals and where one can no longer leave peacefully. after sunset.
The reality of the facts goes far beyond the instrumental alarmism of the Right. and everyone can move safely everywhere and without problems. The truth is that reported by the recent news, those of a city which – like many others – is not immune to episodes of petty crime which we can trace back to a youth problem which certainly, as a candidate for mayor of the centre-left, I do not intend underestimate. But it is equally true that these are episodes that are both condemnable and sporadic, immediately taken over by our police forces – whom I take this opportunity to thank once again – whose commitment has already led to the first measures taken by of the commissioner.
This means that the guard remains high, but the evident liveability rate of a Fano remains equally high, which the Northern League candidate finds convenient in describing as a sort of Bronx in check against the most heinous criminal gangs. That’s not the case, let’s face it.
Certain narratives have always played into the hands of the centre-right, which in the absence of arguments aims straight at the voters’ bellies by attempting to artificially inflate their fears. And not thinking like Serfilippi and company does not at all equate to closing your eyes to what is wrong. Rather, it is a question of wanting to combine the control of the territory with targeted educational policies. A path that we have already undertaken, on which it will be good to continue also through new projects. I am referring to the 165 new generation cameras installed during the two Seri administrations: before, with Aguzzi, there were 6 and not even working. Today we have electronic eyes focused on sensitive areas such as the Pincio and Piazza Amiani, places where the few unfortunate episodes from which Serfilippi intends to profit tend to concentrate. Control systems that promptly allow the identification of those who are involved in thefts, robberies or acts of violence, powerful tools at the service of the police and which have already given their results.
However, the Northern League candidate is right about only one thing: cameras are not enough. But the solution is certainly not his, that is to provide the local police with further tools to intervene. What is he thinking? To electric tasers? Why not truncheons? Is this really the drift he wants to give to his city? The local police certainly deserves to be further strengthened – I remember, however, the approximately 500 thousand euros invested by the centre-left for the training and hiring of new agents – and the future transfer of command to the Paolini Barracks will certainly be functional, as soon as returned to the hands of the Municipality. But it will also be necessary to increase the staff on duty in our police station. Here the government will have to intervene, which is of the same political color as Serfilippi. Here too, the Fano Northern League member wants to blackmail us with the fairy tale of the institutional supply chain, making us believe that the new agents will only arrive if a council friendly with Salvini and Meloni wins?
In conclusion, there is only one solution. We must continue to strive to spread a culture of respect and integration based on the concept of an educating community. When I am mayor of Fano I will work together with institutions, associations and neighborhoods to ensure that our community is increasingly cohesive, in an attempt to eliminate social disparities as much as possible and all those situations of fragility that can lead to incorrect conduct . Young people must be accompanied on the main road of respect, legality and civil life. These have always been the founding values of Fano. A city that doesn’t need truncheons, but a firm fist that also knows how to open up and transform itself into a helping hand.
