Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris will write to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to request a state of emergency in relation to the events of October 29, when severe weather with strong gusts of wind hit the city, causing damage, injuries, and even the death of a 21-year-old man crushed by an uprooted tree in Fuorigrotta. "Today," de Magistris said in an interview with Radio Crc, "I will send the letter to the Prime Minister requesting a state of emergency and the reimbursement of all sums to be spent on safety measures, for which I gave the green light, despite the spending freeze and regulatory and financial constraints." The reference is to the spending freeze for the Municipality established by the regional section of the Court of Auditors of Campania, which had deemed the institution's budget unbalanced, a decision against which the Municipality has appealed. Yesterday, the joint sections of the Court of Auditors suspended the effectiveness of the resolution, thus allowing the Municipality to resume spending. "Cages and constraints," de Magistris said, "have the sole purpose of concretely jeopardizing essential services, destroying a territory and its people, and failing to even guarantee the bare minimum. This makes me deeply angry, because then you have to wait months and in the end they always agree with you, because we are legally right."
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