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April 18, 2020 Crowd in Saviano, in the Neapolitan area, along the road leading to the town hall, for a funeral rite. At least 200 people, balloons, and music at the funeral of the mayor of the center in Nolano, Carmine Sommese, 66 years old, former regional and primary councilor in the hospital of Nola, who died yesterday from coronavirus. A prominent local politician and mayor several times, continuously from 2012 to today, a polite and very helpful professional, Sommese was highly appreciated in his city, and people still wanted to pay him a tribute, going down the street to the passage of the hearse. The deputy mayor, Carmine Addeo, also took off the tricolor band to make it wear to Sommese's wife. The hearse was greeted by a long applause of the crowded people without respecting the safety distances, taken from the images of many cellphones, videos demonstrating the existence of a gathering, despite the prohibition of the anti-contagion rules for Covid-19.

Prefect Naples: very serious
The prefect of Naples, Marco Valentini, considers what happened this morning in the municipality of Saviano "very serious", where a funeral procession was held in honor of Carmine Sommese, Saviano mayor who tested positive for the coronavirus and died yesterday at the hospital in Avellino, with the participation of many people who followed the procession on the sides of the road. Valentini sent to the deputy mayor of Saviano, Carmine Addeo, a note for "firmly stigmatizing the incident". The prefect of Naples recalled that "the current regulations, most recently contained in the Dpcm of 10 April, prohibit, among other things, any form of assembly, suspend organized demonstrations of any nature, as well as civil and religious ceremonies, therein Vice versa, as appears from the images and as confirmed by the local Station of the Carabinieri, there was an organized commemoration of the late Mayor Sommese, in the presence of members of the municipal police and civil protection volunteers, with the predisposition of barriers and other devices for the containment of people, in a context of inadmissible crowding in the public street ". The prefect reported that he considered the incident "stigmatizing" the circumstance of the presence of the deputy mayor with the Italian flag as "very serious" while, in such an exceptional situation as that of the epidemic in progress, thousands of Italian citizens in recent weeks have not could celebrate the funeral of loved ones in order not to generate, in compliance with the provisions in force, a situation of danger to public health ". The prefect of Naples reserved the right to evaluate what happened in the light of the regulations in force while the local Carabinieri Command is carrying out the duties of its competence.