Traffic police at the Show Club in vicolo Cigolo: penalty and 5 days of stop. The owners: «We were outdoors and spaced out. We will appeal, we’re right ”
Enrico Ferro
November 03, 2020
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PADOVA
Fine and five days of closure for the VIP gym, the Show Club in vicolo Cigolo. On Monday afternoon, the municipal police came for a check and found the sports center open, despite the new government regulations that require closure. “There were only three customers and they were outdoors. We will appeal », announced Giorgio Leo and Vito Stolfi, the owners.
The two owners of the gym have already reached an awareness: a competitor asked for the intervention of the brigade. So another gym manager who hasn’t digested the solution found by his colleagues. “There is a passage in the Dpcm in which it is said that outdoor physical activity is allowed outdoors, in public or private sports centers and clubs, in compliance with the rules of social distancing” highlights Giorgio Leo. So this will be the line that the gym specializing in personal training will try to enforce before the judge, to obtain the cancellation of the fine and the sanctioning measure but also to obtain permission to do so again.
“There was no one inside the club,” specify the managers. “There were two people in the outdoor garden and one person on the terrace, all spaced apart. There was no one in the locker room ».
“We almost only follow people who use physical exercise to support the side effects of chronic non-communicable diseases,” says Leo. “The people present at the time of the check fall into this category. We carry out most of our activities remotely, virtually, as in the first lockdown ».
The Show Club comes from a period of great changes, such as that of the closure of the historic headquarters, with entrance in via Umberto I and overlooking the Ruzante Riviera. Currently there are two offices in Padua: one in via Cappelli, a few hundred meters from the Basilica del Santo and the other in vicolo Cigolo, a closed road a stone’s throw from Prato della Valle.
The only office with an outdoor space is precisely that of Vicolo Cigolo, where Giorgio Leo and Vito Stolfi have decided to concentrate their business, in the light of the new Dpcm.
“We are convinced that the sanction that has been given to us (a fine of 280 euros and 5 days of closure) is an injustice” they reiterate. «We want to comply with the regulations and we are sure to do so. We will prove that we have done the right thing, respecting our safety and that of our customers ». –
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