(ANSA) - SANTA CROCE CAMERINA, APRIL 23 - About two hundred Sicilian restaurants took part in the flash mob in PuntaSecca, also in front of the home of 'Commissario Montalbano', made famous by the Raiuno TV series, to ask for the reopening of local restaurants in Sicily. The initiative, carried out in the maritime hamlet of Santa Croce Camerina, in the Ragusa area, was promoted by CoRiSicilia, a movement born on the island of sector operators. Among the participants also chef Ciccio Sultano, two Michelin stars, who speaks of an "air of persecution". "What madness is it - he observes - to allow a cinema to open indoors and forbid it to a restaurant?".
Many stations organized along the way, each symbol of an affected activity. A court was also formed behind a coffin, a symbol, for the demonstrators, of "the death of the VAT number". To act as a corollary the restaurateurs, with side by side operators from other sectors affected by the crisis, including the Godot theater company that showed the chairs turned from their backs. Also present are tour operators, owners of campsites or B & Bs, hairdressers, beauticians, photographers, florists, trade fairs, culture operators, gyms and play facilities, accommodation facilities and travel agencies, entertainment and entertainment, weddings and ceremonies. "We chose the places of Montalbano because they have a strong symbolic content - explains Giuseppe Fiaccavento,responsible for the restaurateurs of Santa Croce Camerina - and we do not stop: we want to meet the president of the Region, Nello Musumeci in Palermo. We ask that the government of the island face the atrocious difficulties of a sector that is attractive to the island's economy and which is paying a higher price than the others ". (ANSA).