Tension is growing a Mondragone, municipality in the province of Caserta. After the clashes and violence yesterday, around 2 o’clock last night, the firefighters intervened to put out the fire of a van in Viale Margherita, right next to the former Cirio buildings which from Monday became a red zone due to about fifty infections from coronavirus among the immigrants of the Bulgarian community that lives in the area. From the first investigations it seems that the cause is malicious and that an incendiary bottle was used to set the vehicle on fire. Shortly after, a similar episode in via Collodi, a crossroad of Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, where a van belonging to a Romanian who was parked next to a house burned.
These are only the latest episodes of violence in chronological order. The fear is that the situation will degenerate at any moment. The climate in the city exacerbated after a violation of the city occurred red area by the Bulgarians living in outbreak buildings and the escape of some of them willing to avoid screening. Despite the sanitary cordon that forbids entry and exit from the area of the building area, dozens of foreigners took to the streets yesterday asking to return to work. Most work in the fields as agricultural laborers. Mondragone citizens also took to the streets accusing Bulgarians of violating the red zone at night to reach the countryside. Some Italian demonstrators have also started to guard the access gate and then try to enter the red zone. The riot police had to intervene to remove them. A Bulgarian threw one ready from the balcony while the Italians responded by throwing stones and breaking through the windows of parked Bulgarian cars.
“A beatings you have to take them: why have you been making fun of all these years? Send the Bulgarians away or we’ll take care of it “, some Mondragone residents threatened, who surrounded the town hall this morning. About 200 protesters, as he reports The morning, “They ask for the hard line and don’t worry about going for people accustomed to justice-do-it-yourself, least of all you worry about going for racists.”
However, local institutions and politics in general are accused of being responsible for deterioration of the area. “Shame, you must be ashamed”, the citizens shouts against the mayor Virgilio Pacifico and the policemen.“They made fun of the whole city, only here in Mondragone was it dared to violate a red zone: react, where to react, or leave it to us: you turn the other way”, it is one of the threatening phrases that would have been shouted on the street.
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