Banners everywhere, hundreds of people with placards in hand. And an unequivocal writing: “Without First Aid you die.” A real ‘human wall’ welcomed the passage of the Milan-Sanremo this afternoon in Albenga to ask the Liguria Region to reopen the emergency room of the Santa Maria hospital Mercy in Albenga. Taking advantage of the media exposure of the Classicissima – with first of all the Rai2 cameras filming the well-known cycling race live – people have already positioned themselves on the street in Ceriale to wait for the cyclists for what has been a successful and absolutely successful mobilization peaceful, as the mayor Riccardo Tomatis had assured, present on the field among the people together with other representatives of the municipal council.
“I thank all those who have worked hard to make the most of the visibility given by such an important event as the Milan-Sanremo”, declared the mayor. “Never had the intention of creating problems for the race and for the athletes, as some would have us believe: peaceful demonstrations like the ones we are carrying out throughout the territory are the most effective way to make one’s voice heard”. Even the sports reporters of Rai2 have expressed themselves on the peaceful modus operandi of the ‘wall’, who spoke of a “protest held in an exemplary, civil and correct way that is keeping the race company”. However, many have noticed that when there were the largest or most prominent banners, the shots on the street moved from above, while passing through the crucial points “.
For the record, the 113th edition of the Milan-Sanremo was won by the Slovenian Matej Mohori? , who literally detached the group after the Poggio, in the final rush, crossing the finish line in front of the French Anthony Turgis and the Dutch Mathieu van der Poel; best Italian is Vincenzo Albanese, who finished eleventh. However, we can speak of a small victory also for Albenga and his tenacity in keeping alive the attention on the hospital and the reactivation of the emergency room, one week after the great march that saw the presence of over 6 thousand people.
This despite the now decidedly head-on clash between the Liguria Region and the Municipality of Ingauno, this time because of the slogan “Without First Aid we die”: the Region has in fact sent a letter to the local administration asking to immediately remove the message in question from the social pages of the municipal body, guilty of representing “falsely, in an artificially constructed manner, a non-existent alarm situation or in any case not really dangerous for the community”, nevertheless underlining the “particularly serious circumstance that the dissemination of this announcement is disseminated through a of institutional communication of the municipal administration, therefore delegated to provide the public with information and news of an official nature and not the personal or political opinions of individuals “and concluding that” if the message is not removed, the Liguria Region will report it to the competent authorities for the consequent measures “.
At the warning, Tomatis replied that “What is happening is the voice of the people and the territory, of which we are spokespersons. If the President does not change his mind, there will be formal administrative acts. I hope that he realizes that it is a request for help that comes from the territory not from a party: a politician cannot ignore it ”.
The regional councilor of the Democratic Party Roberto Arboscello replies to the Region “which warns the Municipality of Albenga for dissent via social health policy” and denounces: “from the Toti junta we expect listening to the territory, not attempts to silence it”.
Arboscello recalls that yesterday “the Liguria Region sent a letter of formal notice, asking the Municipality of Albenga to immediately remove the publication that appeared on the social Facebook channel, with which a simple concept is reiterated: the importance of the hospital for the ingauno territory. “.