Italy: Garbage crisis in Naples

On January 5, the mayor of Naples urged people to calm down, while tons of garbage still flooded the roads since December 21, 2007, so far they are stinking.

The garbage crisis in Napoli has culminated when many youth groups used face masks, threw stones and other miscellaneous items into the riot police force before fleeing.

According to Italian news agency Apcom, many burnt bins cause the black smoke columns to cover the city of Naples. In the Pianuara neighborhood, the focus of the streets, people have toppled three trucks so that the oil slick could stop the police's advance. According to police, two people were slightly injured in the conflicts between police and people on the streets.

People walk on a flooded road in Napoli on January 4 (Photo: TTO)

In the face of a serious situation, the mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Iervolino, called on people to " respect the law " and stressed that she sympathized with the suffering of the people because of garbage. flooded the city. Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi affirmed that the problem will be solved thoroughly and quickly when the cabinet meets on January 7 to review the situation and discuss ways to resolve the problem.

Before the problem of garbage piling up in many places in the city from the last week of 2007, the people of Naples had strong, even excessive reactions. Accordingly, some people burned buses from January 3 to protest that the government reopened a closed garbage bin for many years, others burned rubbish mountains. When the sanitation workers were no longer collecting rubbish due to the lack of trash, the government took into account the reopening of the Pianura garbage in the outskirts of Naples, which had been closed since 1996. However, the people The locality disagrees with this plan due to concerns about bad impacts on their living environment.

Italy's Ansa news agency said there are currently about 3,700 tons of garbage flooding Naples.

The problem of garbage in Naples has been alarmed since 1994, due to insufficient waste treatment centers. Meanwhile, the Mafia Camorra organization involved in the garbage recycling system (behind factories operating in this area) is suspected of interfering with all government-sanctioned garbage disposal solutions. offer.

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