Rats around the Colosseum. Sangiuliano: It is shameful. Need permanent cleaning several times a day

A video has been making the rounds on social media showing rats scurrying in broad daylight among the garbage and filth in thearea around the Colosseum, just a few meters from people. A situation of degradation that prompted the Capitol to immediately start the deratization of the area.

“The rodent problem,” specified theColosseum Archaeological Park Authority, “does not in any way concern the internal areas of the Park where deratization interventions are systematically carried out. It would be essential that this action to combat rodents and systematic cleaning be carried out also in the area of the Colosseum Square, which is not under the Park’s jurisdiction. An increasingly intense collaboration between all public institutions interested in protecting and enhancing the image of Rome internationally is desirable.”

“It is shameful that the most important archaeological area in the world is pouring in these conditions. The area does not belong to the Ministry of Culture but to the City of Rome, however, the issue is not to whom the competence belongs,” Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano commented on that video to Tgr Rai. “I phoned Mayor Gualtieri and told him in no uncertain terms that this situation is intolerable. I know they intervened immediately and cleaned the area but this is not enough, more needs to be done.”

“As early as this week I plan to convene a table because I am not satisfied with a one-time cleanup only to find myself in two weeks in the same situation. We are also ready to invest and take charge of the area that belongs to the Capitol. There we need litter bins, planters, a permanent cleaning that is done several times a day, and it has to stop that mercantile activity that takes place around the Colosseum. Those who sell must be authorized and make the regular tax receipt. There needs to be a cleanup because that area is a calling card in Italy in the world,” the minister added.

Rats around the Colosseum. Sangiuliano: It is shameful. Need permanent cleaning several times a day

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