The cry of alarm is of Michele Giuliani, historical owner of a gym and city and well known in the international body building sector.
Michele Giuliani has been present with his business in the city for over 30 years, before he was in the center, in St. Peter’s Square and in 2005 the decision to expand and open the gym at Cermone. The 3 earthquakes passed over him like hurricanes: that of 2009 and the two seismic events of 2016 and 2017.
Now that he thought he had started to breathe again for a moment, the hatchet of the pandemic from Covid 19 fell upon him with the inevitable closure of the gym and the consequent lockdown.
They were tough months with no income and fixed expenses that he was unable to bear. Now, soon, he also risks eviction and on November 9th there will be a hearing in court.
On the issue during the lockdown on Capital he had already done an in-depth study with the help of a lawyer Vincenzo Calderoni. AIn the time of the Coronavirus, relations related to rents and leasing of premises also become decidedly problematic, especially for traders and business owners such as Michele Giuliani’s, who for months have seen their entrances drastically reduced due to the pandemic.
“I am desperate – says Michele Giuliani al Capital – I know I’m wrong but I just couldn’t keep up with the costs. I reopened when it was practically summer and we know that the period is not the most favorable because we prefer to be outdoors. At the same time as the halved revenues, there were expenses on expenses for the maintenance of the machinery, the sanitization, the utilities to be paid otherwise I would have also disconnected the power ”.
“A week before this new closure I had done another sanitization, I had bought the protections and sanitizers. I have no other income, this has always been my job, if they really send me away I don’t know what to do! “.
A difficult situation since in the rooms that host the gym Michele has also done some work over the years. “In addition to the thousands of euros spent over time to have state-of-the-art machines, I also made several improvements and works and I risk finding myself without anything. If they evict me where do I put myself? “.
“We also suffered a very negative media campaign, the message was passed that the gym is a dangerous place which, however, if attended with due caution, strengthens mind and body and allows you to maintain an optimal state of health”.
Meanwhile, while waiting to know the fate of his gym, Michele is trying to recycle himself as a personal trainer “at home”.
“You can play outdoor sports and sport is my reason for living. So I thought of ‘recycling’ myself like this: those who do not want to lose shape can contact me and we do a training or distance, or even outdoors.
“They are workouts of about an hour and a half with light equipment like barbells or bands. It is a very difficult moment but sport in these circumstances can also be a help to break the isolation and keep body and spirit in shape “.
As for the eviction, the hope for Michele now is that the jurisprudence is on his side: as happened in other courts in Italy, the judges have suspended the evictions for the owners of businesses penalized by the lockdown and therefore in default “due to Covid 19”.
This is the case, for example, of a restaurant owner from Settimo Milanese who, like Michele, was left behind with rents due to the lockdown. The owner of the property went with the eviction which was however “frozen” by a judge of the Milan court.
Since the lockdown, the Milanese restaurateur has failed to pay the rent for March, April, May for a total of 10,600 euros. The magistrate, who postponed the case to December, asked the parties to renegotiate the fee, appealing to “the duty of solidarity” as laid down in the Constitution.
With the health emergency and the lockdown, many businesses have seen their income drastically reduced and, for this reason, the Milan judge declared that “in the current health emergency it is to be considered necessary, in light of the principle of good faith and fairness as well as constitutional solidarity duties, a renegotiation of the fee “.
Otherwise, he clarified, “the sacrifices imposed only on the tenant who suffered from a limitation in the enjoyment of the property would be discharged”.
Furthermore, the judge observed that if the place were put back on the market, in the current situation, “it would probably no longer obtain the value set by the last contract; the value of the asset would in fact be reduced “.
The magistrate then asked the parties to find an agreement, as due to the restrictive measures imposed, the business was unable to proceed at full capacity.
The order of the prosecutor is linked to the report with which the Supreme Court in July addressed the issue of “Excessive burden of fees resulting from the Covid-19 emergency”.
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