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The debacle was already clear in the late afternoon of the 31st, when onions, raudi, kobra thundered in the alleys and along the suburban roads. Now that one minute and one minute has struck and we have entered 2022, we can say it: the anti-barrels ordinance signed by the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi was a failure.
The ordinance provided for a ban on the use of pyrotechnic material (killer barrels are already illegal) throughout the city from 4 pm on Friday 31 December 2021, until 24 am on Saturday 1 January 2022. Fines of up to 500 were provided. euro, in addition to the seizure of the material. Target: avoid a spate of hospitalizations in the emergency room of the city already in heavy trouble for those infected with Covid-19.
This was not the case: already in the evening a 40-year-old Sri Lankan was admitted to the old Pellegrini hospital in Naples with a gunshot wound on the left side of the chest, probably a stray bullet exploded “to celebrate”. Until late at night, the stokers “worked” without problems in the historic center, Vomero, the Spanish quarters, the Traiano district, Scampia and Ponticelli.
