Stones and bars, the mega-brawl of the Bulgarians in the streets of Mondragone

The mayor launches an appeal to Piantedosi: "Extraordinary public order measures are needed"

NAPLES – People on the run, armed with wooden clubs and stones. Then a fight involving numerous people, belonging to the Bulgarian community settled for years in Mondragone, a municipality in the province of Caserta. Scenes that the mayor Francesco Lavagna does not hesitate to define as “urban violence”. The episode, filmed by some residents via a smartphone, happened yesterday evening, at around 8pm, in the city centre.

For the mayor, the incident has “heightened the widespread sense of insecurity and abandonment in large sections of civil society”, we read in a letter sent immediately after the events to the prefect of Caserta Giuseppe Castaldo.
“Unfortunately these events – writes Lavagna -, recorded and reported in the past, require a response and a joint effort as the single commitment of the local police is unable to stem these phenomena which could also lead to much more serious and difficult situations manage”.
The mayor asks the prefect to urgently convene the technical committee for security and public order, then announcing that the facts will be brought to the attention of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi.

Lavagna, finally, wants to evaluate “extraordinary measures and public order provisions to strengthen the State’s control over the territory in order to make the repression of illegal activities effective also in consideration of the approaching of the summer season, which will see Mondragone increase its population density”.