Covid: gym owner is chained, "I close out of ignorance"

(ANSA) - LANCIANO, OCTOBER 26 - The pacific protest of the owner of Sport and Fitness in Castel Frentano (Chieti) took place today against the closures of the Palestrea following the anti-covid DC: he chained his hands to a stake in front of his sports center. "Closed for ignorance. Enough"; this is the sign that Vicenzo Di Rado, 49, from Lanciano, hung on his chest. The same gym, which he manages together with his instructor wife, has kept it open in Lanciano for a long time, but in recent years he has moved it to the neighboring Castel Frentano. Di Rado is one of the best known sportsmen Lanciano and in over 25 years of activity he has also played athletics and loosened several football clubs. His provocation was welcomed by all the other owners of gyms and sports centers in Lanciano and neighboring municipalities who will find themselves demonstrating on Thursday morning, at 11, in Piazza Plebiscito in Lanciano. Many customers will also support the protest. "It is a peaceful and civil protest, which does not belong only to violent groups, against the choice of the Government - says Vicenzo Di Rado. After the Isef diploma I have been working in sports for decades and now I have decided to react. Our sector is no less important than others. What they have established is wrong, since we have spent so much to adapt to the rules. A poke around. We had to do more prevention in the second phase. People circulate and get infected, but they always pay the same categories - adds Di Rado. Or we all stop. none ". (HANDLE)