Pescara, mayor hammers down fountain to solve decay problem

The mayor of Pescara, Carlo Masci (Forza Italia) , demolishedaa hammered down a fountain on Silvio Pellico Street: the work had become a receptacle for garbage and had been in disrepair for years. Also destroyed was a plumbing pipe cover box used as a storage facility by drug dealers. “When it takes, it takes,” the first citizen wrote on Facebook. “Martyrs Pennesi Square, artifact used by drug dealers as storage. Park Road, fountain abandoned for decades and unusable used as a garbage dumpster. Now they are gone” .

Of course, the mayor has been showered with criticism for destroying a public good: now, many say, drug dealers will continue to deal but Pescara has one less fountain. Many blame Masci for not focusing on the problem, still others say the fountain was salvageable, and there are those who point out to him that it is not by destroying that problems are solved, but through redevelopment works. And there are even those who are already comparing these images to those of Isis militants, also armed with clubs like the mayor.

He, however, will not listen to reason. “The camel troops of fake-news,” he says, “borrow a gesture contrary to degradation of the worst kind, such as the demolition of two artifacts that have been abandoned for decades, rundown and used as garbage bins, syringes and drugs to rail and claim that I would take away the water from those who bivouac there night and day. I will not stand for that, with the strength that my many fellow citizens who demand cleanliness, safety and a more beautiful city give me. The demolition of those old artifacts, a standard fountain and an irrigation pipe cover box, worthless, now becomes a casus-belli evidently for pure store interests. There the water had not flowed for decades, the pipes were unserviceable, rusted and dangerous. As for the use of the pickaxe, mine was a symbolic gesture; the mayor must and can do so when the interests of the people are at stake, and I will continue to make more of them.”

Meanwhile, however, the news, and especially the video of the mayor knocking down and pickaxing, are making the rounds on the Web. And the comments are anything but benevolent....

Pescara, mayor hammers down fountain to solve decay problem

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