Dear Bills, in Naples Bakers in the Square with a Coffin

Caro bills, in Naples bakers in the square with a coffin. In Piazza Plebiscito in Naples free bread distributed to citizens against the high bills.

Against the high cost of bills: a coffin in Piazza Plebiscito and funeral posters to communicate that “the Campanian bakery industry has died out after years of sacrifice thanks to the State”.

It is the protest of the bakers of Naples and Campania organized today by Unipan Confcommercio Campania which also saw bakers from other regions of Central-Southern Italy take to the streets.

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Decreeing the “death” of the sector are the high cost of electricity and gas bills but also the increase in all raw materials starting with flour and oil: it is feared that the price of the product could reach seven or eight euros per kilo. The bakers announce that “soon” there will be a lockout.

“We are tired, we have been victims of speculation on bills for a year – reports Domenico Filosa, president of the trade association – many bakeries have already closed and when many others will close then politics will have to assume all the responsibilities not only towards us and towards our employees, but also towards the population because when there is no bread on the tables, history teaches us that there are revolutions”.

Bakers report increases in electricity and gas bills of between 700 and 800 percent, with bills going from one thousand to seven to eight thousand euros in the month of August. “Free bread today, because tomorrow there may be no bread left“, shouted one protester. “With these bills and these increases in the price of raw materials – explained Antonio Rescigno, a baker from Pozzuoli – we will be forced to bring bread at a price unattainable for many people and bread will become a luxury good".