Rome, police attacked in Roma camps. The move of the Municipality: “Now stop the controls”
Still tensions in the Roma camps of the capital. The latest report, more precisely, comes from the one in via Salviati: here on Sunday a group of local police officers was attacked by a group of people who were trying to enter the settlement, most likely to sell a stolen moped. All this – in parallel – while the Municipality has asked the police to suspend the censuses in the settlements to check whether those present are authorized or not. The request came from the Councilor for Welfare, Barbara Funari, who last Thursday sent a letter to the commander of the corps, Ugo Angeloni, and his deputy Stefano Napoli in this direction. And since yesterday stop the checks.
Funari, who in recent months has launched a consultation with the third sector, announced for the beginning of the year a plan for the “overcoming” (he does not use the word “clearing”) of the settlements in Rome, where almost 5 thousand people. Very cautious position, which has led to many frictions with some colleagues in the junta. In the communication sent to the Command last Thursday, he asks “to suspend all presence detection activities within the nomad camps”. These activities, which had slowed down considerably in the last two years, had resumed in recent weeks in the Castel Romano camp and then should have been extended to the other settlements.
TENSIONS
The situation on the nomad camps front remains tense. The theme will be at the center of tomorrow’s meeting of the Committee for public order and safety, coordinated by the prefect of Rome Bruno Frattasi and in which the councilor for security, Monica Lucarelli, and the councilor for transport will participate as representatives of the municipality , Eugenio Patanè.
The latest wake-up call came from the Via Salviati camp at Tor Sapienza in the extreme eastern suburbs of the city. A structure opened in 1994, where about 400 people live today and which is prey to degradation so much so that the residents of the neighborhood have long been calling for the intervention of the Capitol to stop the toxic fires or various trafficking of stolen goods.
Late Sunday afternoon, one of the two eve patrols manning the camp notices strange movement around the area. Officially there are two entrances, but the agents agree that two boys aboard a scooter are trying to enter the settlement from one of the makeshift entrances opened illegally on the network, to evade surveillance by the police. The white helmets stop the two (an Italian and a foreigner) but immediately three other people in a car get in and start insulting the agents, perhaps in an attempt to get their friends released. The policemen try to find out who the owners of the two vehicles are, but since the agreement between the Municipality and the public vehicle register has been canceled, they have to call the police station to find out that both the motorbike and the car have been stolen. To restore calm, the command sends two other patrols to the scene: one from the Spe special core (the public and emergency security operational unit), the other from the Tiburtino group. In the end there will be five people arrested and referred to the authorities, one woman and four men, with criminal records. Among them, also a citizen of Gambia, who had recently finished serving several years of prison in the United States.
Comments Marco Milani, assistant secretary of the Sulp union, who made the case known: «This is yet another episode that demonstrates the delicacy of the work we carry out on the road every day and which does not deserve to be managed with approximation: Access to databases, self-protection tools and reinforcement patrols ready to intervene quickly should be the norm for those who work in guaranteeing security, while instead we still find ourselves witnessing access problems to databases, unarmed agents and personnel of special groups distracted in showcase activities in the squares of the center”. To conclude: “Applause should be given to colleagues who, despite the difficulties, have done their job admirably, but the men of the local police must be protected and put in a position to continue to carry out checks in the Roma camps”.
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