Via Gemmellaro Saturday night? As at the feast of Sant’Agata. So much for the anti-contagion distancing and respect for the work of law enforcement and civil protection volunteers present (few, too few those put in place) who have also tried (in vain) to limit at least the entrances. The scenes are those that have always been seen: tables everywhere, even well out of the assigned public land, people crowded everywhere, that if by chance someone had felt ill, even among the patrons themselves, a rescue vehicle would not have been able to pass. Or, in the event of a “mass flight”, the situation could only have escalated. To “save” the situation in this specific case was, incredible to say, the strike of the curfew, albeit not respected exactly at 11pm, but which acted as a deterrent to the premises to start closing, to people to begin to flow slowly, and go home.
No type of control, at least on Saturday evening, at the Ursino Castle. “No wonder – a resident tells us – it’s always like this here. During the week there are some roadblocks, maybe on Saturday they loosen up a little ». And the scene that was repeated was that of cars parked even in the most unthinkable places, congested traffic and the usual scooters whizzing on the square (at least that should be pedestrian ..), including a quad driven by a child. “The mopeds on the square? But there have always been and always will be, especially when there are no controls ».
Checks that, in what should be the limited traffic area that starts from Piazza Scammacca and via Pulvirenti, were seen only around 11 pm, but because they were requested by the residents (and the results were not so effective). Until 11 pm with the premises open, the situation was “tolerated”, despite the now systematic violation of the Ztl, never really enforced by the municipal administration, but still at 11.45 pm and until after midnight it seemed clear that it is the children still have understood the meaning of the word “curfew”.
After yet another weekend of “delirium”, a goal has been achieved: the “protest of the sheets” of the residents of the center, who in the city pretends not to see, is actually spreading with new members also in other streets of the center historical. And even off the island: in the wake of what is happening in the city of Etna, in fact, they will begin in Cagliari. And the contacts of associations throughout Italy are fervent to create a “national network”. “But – warn from the city center – we are only at the beginning”.