In Rome they destroy a new pedestrian area with skateboards

The good news runs quickly, on social networks, at the speed of light: in Rome there is a wonderful, perhaps unique, brand new and immaculate place, where the asphalt is smooth and the benches are made of polished and polished marble. And it does not matter that this weekend has touched 40 degrees, the opportunity is too tempting to pass up. So many young people who participated in the World Street Skateboarding Rome 2022 took their scooter and rushed to the new pedestrian area in via Puglie, inaugurated less than a month ago between the two schools Regina Elena and Buonarroti, and performed with the boards in a post-sport-like event, after the official races last week at Colle Oppio, in acrobatics that of ‘virtuoso’ – the indignant residents told Adnkronos – only had the fact of damaging, probably once and for all, the marble benches that up until a minute ago were shining in the sun. “It must have been boys of not even 18 years old, those who yesterday and the day before had fun in via Puglie and who came from Great Britain and the Netherlands. Faced with the arrival of the Municipal Police, they showed the amazement of those who are accustomed differently, because in their countries everything they have done ‘is customary’, as they explained “, said some citizens of the neighborhood. “Obviously, it is normal for them to damage the marble of the newly inaugurated benches and which in theory would serve to embellish an area reserved for students at the entrance and exit of the school”, commented a passer-by who stopped to observe the scene. the intervention of the Municipal Police, evidently called by some resident. “But if what they did is ‘normal’ as they say – he added – why then did many of them run away as soon as the brigade arrived? Why didn’t they show them the documents immediately when they asked for them? are they refused to open their backpacks? Because whoever said they didn’t have their passport with them didn’t want to go with the guards to pick it up at the hotel? “. It was said of the speed with which certain good news spreads, but we should also speak – as another witness pointed out – also of the speed with which “some young foreigners adapt to the permissiveness that exists here with us and that their parts is probably less noticeable. This form of immediate adaptation to our habits and customs – he explained – can be seen in the totally casual attitude of those who say ‘no’ to a request from a public official, with a naturalness that leaves one disconcerted ” . Just as it makes one remain speechless, on the opposite side, the citizen himself noted, “the lack of means of those who intervene to stop a massacre: the police have their hands tied, they do not speak a word of English, they cannot even ask for a document, they cannot intervene promptly “. This, explained the Municipal Police, “because the city is currently full of other problems to deal with, not least the fires”. And then the numbers, the passer-by wanted to underline: “Two agents to stop those who run here and those there, go and find those who have gone away. Only those who remain stop, those who are hesitant and have not taken the ‘ fugone ‘”. “To find out who is responsible for the damage, we must identify who has done it materially”, said the brigade, underlining that the flagrant crime is something “extremely precise” and that videos that generally portray children slipping with the their skateboards: “Are we sure they were the ones of today? Or was it yesterday’s kids? ”. “In the meantime, there are those of today”, observed the citizen, “then we will also look for the others, but it would be right that for the moment an investigation was started, and that someone pays: if we don’t start thinking in this way, we will always be late, we will be forced to chase each time, and we will never be able to get right and return our new path as before. One thing is certain – he concluded – For now, and who knows for how long, we will keep the pieces, what remains of the havoc they have done “. (By Cristiano Camera)