Degradation in the Metropolitan gallery in Siena, a letter from a town open to the mayor and the prefect
To the Mayor of the Municipality of Siena Avv. Luigi De Mossi
To the Prefect Dr. Maria Forte
And for knowledge
At the Galleria Metropolitan condominium
To the management of the Contrada del Drago
To political forces
To the newspapers
To citizenship
Dear Mayor and Dear Prefect,
Allow me to write to bring a problem to your attention.
Yesterday they passed by the Metropolitan gallery, entering from the alley of the Metropolitan gallery, entering from the alley of the Metropolitan gallery, and were disconcerted by the situation of decay: for months the entrance to Oviesse on the lower floor has been blocked, the escalators have not been started and occasionally even the elevator does not work. The (no longer) mobile stairs are invaded by rubbish, broken bottles and glass shards, a plasterboard column is smashed through, with rubble on the ground, the floor is dirty, the walls covered with writings (I attach some photographs below ).
It seems that the perpetrators are some kids, who have made the gallery their “base” and who have a hostile and threatening attitude. Consequently many people avoid going through the alley of the Rope Ball and the Metropolitan gallery and these are increasingly degraded.
Siena has always been a quiet city, we don’t have big problems of crime to deal with. Is it possible that we don’t even know how to manage a group of kids?
Painting them as dangerous criminals to be repressed and punished is useless, misleading, and risks creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. The control of the police is necessary, but it is not enough. We need to understand what the underlying discomfort is and deal with it. Is it possible that the only alternative, in the face of problems, is to put a gate? Do we want to continue amputating parts of the city until it dies or do we have other ideas as well?
The famous “ga” are made up of about fifteen children, difficult, but they are only about fifteen children – who in any case are also minors being reintegrated into society, following a sentence of the Court for years.
Perhaps then we can immediately begin to integrate them, making interventions to prevent and treat the discomfort of young people. We know that following Covid, many young people suffer from anxiety, panic and depression, that meetings take place more on social media than in real life that Siena lacks facilities and meeting places. There is also a lack of projects to foster integration, include problems and indicate ways out – and interesting perspectives that bivouac on a ladder …
Abroad these problems have been successfully addressed by building places where children can meet to do something beautiful (being together, talking, playing sports, music, art, culture, crafts, civics in all its forms, school orientation and introduction at work…). We can build something similar, without discharging all the responsibility to volunteering, but entrusting the management in a professional way to trained people, capable of listening and accepting permanently, knowing the territory and the problems of young people.
These interventions – which can also be financed under the PNRR – as well as being able to solve the problem of the hardship of the most difficult young people and degradation of the city, perhaps for a heritage for all the children and an investment in the future of our city.
Can we do it too? Do we want to do it?
Do we have a project?
Can we start doing something right now?
What future do we want for Siena?
Pending a constructive reply, I offer my best regards.
Siena, 29.07.2022,
Claudia Bini
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Published July 29, 2022