(ANSA) - TURIN, 18 JAN - Each covered by a white sheet, like ghosts, over 200 fitness operators demonstrated today in Turin, in the central Piazza Castello, to declare their 'invisibility' in this year of almost total closure of the sector.
While a gong sounded the death of the sector - there is talk of a 40% of Italian gyms that will not be able to reopen if they fail - the organizers took turns reading the reasons for the protest in a shadowy silence.
"Perhaps the premier thinks that gyms are still a place, in the style of the 80s, for bodybuilders and people in undershirts - commented Michela Calandretti and Paolo Donato, among the promoters - but gyms are a place where health and immune system improvement are cultivated. About 6 million users in Italy are deprived of this. And 120,000 professionals of about 7,300 companies are unemployed. And without refreshments.
Delegations of fitness operators were received by the governor Alberto Cirio, by the Councilor for Sport of the Piedmont Region, Fabrizio Ricca, and by the prefect ClaudioPalomba. (HANDLE).