In Milan, the protest of the merchants, activity keys to the municipality - PHOTO

Even in Milan restaurateurs and managers of clubs, beauticians and hairdressers, protest against the government's decision to maintain the closure of these commercial activities also in phase 2 which will start from May 4. For them, a reopening is expected on June 1st. In protest, a delegation representing about 2,000 merchants will hand over the keys to as many clubs and restaurants to the Municipality of Milan at 11:30 am. The delegation, made up of three people to avoid gatherings, reached piazza della Scala symbolically parading through via Manzoni, a commercial area in the center of Milan. "We will deliver 2 thousand keys of restaurants, beauty shops, hairdressers, cinemas to the Municipality in protest - explained the promoter of the event and restaurateur, Alfredo Zini -. We don't know if we will be able to reopen in June because the rules are not clear, we have suffered a 70% drop in turnover and we will have to invest to adapt our activities to new security measures. We live in conviviality and at the moment we do not even know if a family of 4 can sit together at the table of a bar or a restaurant. There is no clarity even about the protective devices ". At Palazzo Marino, seat of the Municipality of Milan, the delegation of merchants will be received by the Councilor for Commerce, Cristina Tajani and by the head of the Mayor's Cabinet, Mario Vanni. The Municipality cannot intervene on the reopenings, as the administration points out, but it is putting in place a plan for when the activities will be able to open, with the possibility for the activities to expand outside and a reduction of Cosap is being considered, the tax of occupation of public land.