New Year, Piazza Duomo in Milan the hands of thugs Repubblica.it
Baby gangs, drunks and thugs have taken hostage the night last year, a deserted Piazza Duomo. And not just there: a two door Ticinese olds were robbed by a gang of South American armed with a knife. The same, perhaps, gone unnoticed by the most important square of the city and throwing bottles smashed against the church and attacked "anyone who happened to be passing nearby, especially women," as Angelo says Valdez, a citizen happened there at that time. Groping, insults, guys pissing next to the monument. "Some families with kids running away and the few tourists were stunned. We too have been afraid and we went away in a hurry, "continues Valdez, according to which 'it was noticed the presence of forces order. "And to think that just to preserve the Duomo square, the Municipality has decided to move elsewhere, the events of the New Year. A decision that the deputy mayor Riccado De Corato still defends: "If there were issues of public policy must answer who is deputy to ensure this and I did not before. A concert, however, would bring a greater influx of people and many more fighting and devastation. All in all, the New Year in Milan, despite some incidents, it was not the worst. " And the superintendent Alberto Artioli, the most intransigent defenders of the integrity of Piazza Duomo, acknowledges that "on occasions like New Year is difficult to manage incursions of the uncivilized." The last night of the year was a bit 'anywhere, for that matter, a favorable opportunity for crime: three foreigners were stabbed (Via Legnano, via San Protaso and near the Duomo), in a bar Gratosoglio was given to flames and in a way Varesine Islamic butcher was even blown up. In Turin, a twenty-one via Emilia was robbed of cell phone shortly after midnight on a Sapri a woman was robbed of purse by two nomads who slapped her husband. And Baranzate an Albanian was stabbed by a senior, both were in a car before you buy for dinner. There were also injured in the barrels: a young man lost three of Cinisello Balsamo fingers, a 14 year old Cusano Milanino has been burned in one ear. And in Sesto San Giovanni the owner of a restaurant shooting trial was put in place, with a gun against the signs.
But 2008 has also led Milan to good news. As the birth of Martin, the first baby of the new year, come to light by Italian parents at the clinic Macedonio Melloni. A success, then, the events organized by the city: Piazza Castello 10 thousand people in the revival of the '70s and '80s, the smooth to 2 thousand and 400 Palalido to dinner at the park on Via Palestro. Record of receipts also at the Teatro Smeraldo - € 140 thousand for 1500 admissions - for the last show of Legnanesi. But all this, the archbishop said Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan during the Thanksgiving to New Year in San Fedele, we must not forget that "there is a city of the unseen, the poor and then in 2008 we must continue to create" new conditions of coexistence with the Roma. " In the same spirit of openness to other cultures, yesterday afternoon, the community of Sant'Egidio organized in piazza San Carlo a meeting with a Buddhist Monaco witness the repression of the Burmese regime.
(02 January 2008)
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