Naples, emergency spreads at Corso Garibaldi souk

A Napoli, the entire area of ​​the railway continues to be an enormous receptacle of degradation, illegality and abuse with the so-called "garbage markets".

And they transform Piazza Garibaldi and the adjacent areas into a huge souk where the various and numerous stalls, improvised on makeshift tarpaulins placed on the ground, are a hymn to the violation of every sales and hygiene-sanitary regulation that comes. At Corso Garibaldi the situation is completely getting out of control.

“It's getting worse here!” - says a resident who turned to the Regional Councilor of Europa Verde Francesco Emilio Borrelli - “Even when we manage to get a patrol to come, nothing is solved because they allow them to take back the 'garbage' by covering it for those 5 minutes. The time it takes for the patrol to leave and they start again! I don't understand why that stuff isn't confiscated and why they're allowed to do all this”.

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“Citizens have every reason to complain and be exasperated. We are continuing to tolerate unparalleled degradation. These illegal markets constitute a real 'attack' on decorum, hygiene and safety, as well as being an affront to regular traders, who are now struggling against the high cost of energy and the increase in the cost of raw materials.

The problem is very big and to solve it we need to deploy men, forces and determination but instead we continue to hesitate or at least intervene in fits and starts and in a very bland way. For the whole neighborhood we need concrete, decisive, severe and also rapid interventions to regain control of the situation. Unfortunately, a part of the population shares the growing degradation.

I was even attacked by some locals, when I intervened to counter these markets of filth and illegality, and with arrogance. The same people held a public demonstration in favor of degradation and against tourists, leaving offensive graffiti right in Piazza Garibaldi that to this day have not been erased", were the words of Councilor Borrelli.