Genoa, 300 euro fine for a lunch in the street: “I wrote to the mayor”. And the case ends in Tursi – Primocanale.it
GENOA – A rather salty mixed fry that the Genoese Andrea Majorana he ate last week under the Rubattino statue in piazza Loading. As he was, in fact, eating near a monument, according to local police officers they reached him asking him to get up and listen because, according to the municipal regulation, it would be forbidden to sit on the steps. “I was dumbfounded, I did it often and in the 25 years that I have lived here in the historic center and I did not know about this rule. With me there were also other people sitting and the others left, after the initial shock I at least asked if I could finish eating “.
From there, the fine of 200 euros was imposed for “bivouac in a place not permitted by law” and the other of 100 euros to “feed the pigeons”. The case ended in the city council and the harsh observation came from the opposition to Palazzo Tursi.
“Those who want to eat a little sun during their lunch break must be careful not to end up in the grip of the regulation passed by the Bucci Council in 2018 which prohibits bivouacs (which, among other things, a vocabulary includes stopping at night)”
“The regulation was also born out of another tragic absurditythat of fining the homeless, a fact that later proved – as expected – impracticable due to inability “, writes the councilor in a note Alberto Pandolforather asking for the installation of benches in the area of Piazza Loading, Piazza Fontane Marose, Piazza San Lorenzo, where an episode similar to a student had already happened.
The bivouac and eating in a not insignificant way are prohibited by the regulation which, it must be said, is in force in other Italian cities. But for ‘bivouac’ is the literal meaning valid, namely that of stopping and camping for the night, or that by extension that would forbid even a short stop? We asked the local police who commented that the rule of common sense applies: the penalty is not raised to everyone, but only in certain circumstances. Perhaps Majorana’s forbidden reaction triggered the measure: “Sono touchy: it was necessary to understand my amazement at a similarity. “A lady then joined in, raging the police, so much so that the fine tried to calm the tensions.
“For the moment I haven’t paid the fines yet, I wrote a letter to the mayor Marco Bucci and the councilor Giorgio Viale”
“Many have written to mesome children learned of this fact from their parents at home who read what happened on social media and the teacher told me about their dismay at all the times they stopped all together on a school trip to eat in the square “. Without to count that street food is a reality well rooted in the Genoese historic center: “Genoa is a difficult city from an architectural point of view even to place benches, many tourists prefer a focaccia-based lunch and if one of them takes a this guy not only never comes back, but he also gives the city bad publicity. ”