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.
Scattered bottles and waste scattered everywhere along Via Caracciolo. "It was not possible to sleep between the horn and the cackling - explains a resident who lives in front of the small port of Mergellina - There were crowds of young people, the people seemed to have gone mad after two months of lockdown. Mergellina was completely paralyzed: via Caracciolo , piazza Sannazaro, piazzetta del Leone. The situation was normalized only after 4. It was hell ".
Rome - From Ponte Milvio to the historic center, from San Lorenzo to Testaccio the nightlife areas have been repolated. The local police delimited the Catechumens fountain in Piazza della Madonna dei Monti in the historic center for a few hours, to avoid gathering people around. During the day many people also on the beach in Ostia.
Bari - Reports of gatherings brought in just three hours, from 9 pm to midnight, the local police to carry out checks, punishing 18 citizens who did not keep the social distance. All were fined with a report of 400 euros each for violating the prescriptions imposed by the health emergency.
Foggia - Covid does not stop the Foggia nightlife. Hundreds and hundreds of people poured into the nightlife places to enjoy the first real Saturday of phase 2. Crowded with young people, but also with many families, the central Corso Vittorio Emanuele. I stormed the tables of restaurants and bars.
Potenza and Matera - Lots of calls but no provision: this is the line of action chosen by the police headquarters in Potenza and Matera who had to face the "classic" movements of Saturday evening in the two major cities of Basilicata, while this morning the situation appears more peaceful.
Rimini - Anti-nightlife controls have increased in Rimini. After dinner hours in the area of the Old Fish Market, a traditional meeting place for young people, a scene similar to that of Friday took place, with the alleys and the square full of people. Many small groups of friends, many without masks, in which the distance of one meter was not always maintained, despite being outdoors.
Trieste - Large crowd for the Trieste nightlife on the first Saturday since the 'reopening' but, substantially no critical issues, as the Questura made known that it carried out checks from 7 pm to 1 am, with 25 men who monitored the nightlife area. The agents of the steering wheels have sanctioned 2 people because they did not wear protective devices, both in the center.
