u/border_dad
· 5h
July 1. About 50. Two officers hurt. Hold that chain.
Rome ramps up security around Colosseum with new ‘red zone’ targeting criminals
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Rome drew a red zone around the Colosseum after 50 men surrounded the cops on July 1.
Summary
- Fox News reports Rome Prefect Lamberto Giannini issued a six-page order creating an 'enhanced-control zone' over the Colosseum, Imperial Forums, and Colle Oppio after predatory crime, drug dealing, and a violent clash.
- The measure took effect Aug. 24 and runs four months through Christmas Eve. It lets authorities remove people whose violent, threatening, or persistently disruptive behavior creates a public-safety risk.
- The order blamed a 'resurgence of disorder' 'predominantly attributable to groups of young people of non-EU origin,' citing predatory crime, fights, and fireworks used to distract victims.
- Officials said the break came July 1, when about 50 non-EU nationals allegedly resisted officers after fireworks near the Colosseum, damaged police property, and left two officers with minor injuries, ANSA said, during an unauthorized gathering in Piazza del Colosseo.
Commentary
A Queens bus driver still remembers the limestone dust on a cheap Rome ticket and knows a fireworks pop by the arches is a setup, not a show. He did not save for that trip so 50 men could ring a cop.
July 1. Fifty. Two injured officers. August 24 to Christmas Eve. The honest dad already paid the lane. The gathering paid the zone.
Look every working father who still walks a tourist street with his kids in the eye and answer this: if 50 men can surround the police at the Colosseum, who still owns the next piazza?
Comments
If 50 men can surround police at the Colosseum, who still owns the next piazza?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a square so a monument stayed a monument. A red zone is not a souvenir.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Giannini six pages. Aug. 24 to Christmas Eve. Removal power. Publish the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied ruins still treat a fireworks pop as a cue. A non-EU crowd is not a festival.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Imperial Forums. Colle Oppio. ANSA on Piazza del Colosseo. File the four.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next ring broken, not explained as youth.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A fireworks pop by the arches is not a show. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A 50-man surround is a second border around a ruin. The first arrest should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed July 1, 50 men, and Christmas Eve. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the red zone. Keep the removals. A visitor who rings a cop is not a guest.
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