The photos of the Naples waterfront blocked

2020-05-24T12:24:09.867Z

Threatened photographer ANSA Cesare Abbate (ANSA)May 24, 2:17 pm Closeup The photos of the Naples waterfront blocked Threatened the photographer ANSA Cesare Abbate Photostory © ANSA WATCH THE PHOTOSTORY Photo Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Close © ANSA Traffic blocked until 4 in the morning, gatherings and bivouacs, shouts, fights between young people...

May 24, 2:17 pm Closeup

The photos of the Naples waterfront blocked

Threatened the photographer ANSA Cesare Abbate

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Traffic blocked until 4 in the morning, gatherings and bivouacs, shouts, fights between young people and residents exasperated to film everything. Those who found themselves near the Naples waterfront last night for the first Saturday post lockdown speak of "collective madness". Thousands of people, even without a mask, poured into the street, on foot or by car, with the sidewalks used as preferential lanes for cars and motorcycles, despite the nightlife venues respecting the closing time at 11pm.

"Between honking and shouting it was not possible to sleep - explains a resident who lives in front of the small port of Mergellina - It was hell".

A photographer collaborating with the Ansa Agency, Cesare Abbate, was threatened and forced to hand over the card with the photos in which he had taken up the presence of some gatherings of young people, many of them without masks. It happened just before midnight, in Largo Sermoneta, in the area of the chalets of Mergellina, where after 11pm many people poured in once closed bars and clubs. Abbate was approached by some young men who insulted and threatened him. The episode follows other similar cases that occurred in recent days in Naples, always to the detriment of photojournalists committed to witnessing with their work the evolution of phase 2 in the city.

PHOTO ANSA / CESARE ABBATE

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