Bad weather, Bologna-Milan at Dall’Ara also cancelled

Mayor Lepore has signed an ordinance suspending the football match scheduled for Saturday at 6pm. Schools closed tomorrow

BOLOGNA – Bologna-Milan will not be played at the Dall’Ara on Saturday.

Mayor Matteo Lepore, after consulting the police commissioner and the prefect, this afternoonsigned an ordinance suspending the football match scheduled for Saturday at 6:00 pm at the Dall’Ara stadium.

Bad weather is still looming and so after the suspension of schools, here comes the suspension of football.

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The Bologna-Milan match would also bring to the stadium, in via Andrea Costa and therefore near the most critical area of the city, about 35,000 people, “with consequent public order problems due to the presence of fans and the closure of traffic in the entire surrounding area from early afternoon until night”, informs the Municipality.

“All this would create significant difficulties for the operations in progress and would worsen the context in which that area already is, creating risks for the safety and security of people”, is further explained from Palazzo D’Accursio.

The need to suspend the Bologna-Milan match was shared by the mayor during this afternoon’s meeting of the Relief Coordination Center held in the Prefecture.

Lepore’s order recalls that last Saturday’s flood hit various areas of the city and in particular the Porto-Saragozza district where the Dall’Ara stadium is located and where “intense activities to restore the situation in public areas and private properties are underway”.

The rains of recent days and the weather forecast for the next few days “do not allow us to predict a return to normality in the next few hours, also given the weather alert” for tomorrow, finally reports the provision to stop the match which, if played, would have seen Bologna donate half of the proceeds to the Metropolitan City fund to help the flood victims.