• Mondragone, mini red zone in the ex Cirio area
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June 26, 2020 Mondragone firefighters intervened around 2 o'clock last night in viale Margherita to put out the fire of a van parked near the ex Cirio buildings, from Monday red zone due to about fifty contagions from coronavirus prevalently spread among the Bulgarian community that lives in the town of Caserta. It appears that the vehicle was set on fire and is owned by a Bulgarian citizen. To strengthen the surveillance of the red zone, the Minister of the Interior, at the request of the President of the Campania Region, yesterday sent a contingent of 50 soldiers; another 40 police officers were made available to the police headquarters in Caserta. Another 30 soldiers are expected to arrive today.

Meanwhile, the Bulgarian man was identified and brought to the barracks who yesterday, during the most excited moments of the protest, which resulted in urban guerrilla warfare, threw a chair from his home, slightly injuring a policeman. The violation of the red zone by some Bulgarian citizens has sparked the anger of the Italian community thus transforming the health emergency into a public order emergency. On Thursday afternoon about thirty people also entered the Town Hall asking the first citizen to crack down on the Bulgarian protest by threatening to do justice on their own. Governor De Luca, who went to the scene yesterday, said that for 15 days no one should enter or leave the red zone. From today, two campers of the regional crisis unit will swab those who live near the ex Cirio buildings.

"If we find four, five or ten positives - said De Luca - it means that the situation is fully under control. If we were to have one hundred positives, the whole city of Mondragone is quarantined". The secretary of the Salvini League also spoke on the matter. "I will be on Tuesday in Mondragone and Castel Volturno to meet the citizens and try to understand how to help, even the police, to do their job," he said.



Mini red zone
In Mondragone, points out the Crisis Unit of the Campania region, at 18.00 today the swabs examined since the beginning of the screening, that is Saturday, June 20, were 727; those positive results are 43. The Crisis Unit of the Campania Region clarifies that the data provided daily, as has always happened up to now, refer to the communications at 10 pm the previous day.

The transfer of positive people, however asymptomatic, to the Covid Hospital in Maddaloni, where nineteen are currently hospitalized, are continuing, albeit slowly. yesterday six infected were transferred, thirteen more are missing, to which are added the new positives.

Some of the positives, however, cannot be traced; many tenants, especially among foreigners, are not registered and it is assumed that they did lose track, for fear of losing their job.

Many are laborers and work in the fields where they are exploited by Bulgarian nationals. Corporals who live in the former Cirio Palaces.

The red zone
has been violated Despite the sanitary cordon that prohibits the entry and exit from the area of ​​the building area, this morning dozens of people, mostly belonging to the Bulgarian community that lives in those buildings, have violated the red zone and have I went out on the street asking to be able to go back to work. Most work in the fields as agricultural laborers. There have been moments of tension, but the police who guard the gates have managed to bring foreigners back to their homes. Mondragone citizens also took to the streets accusing Bulgarian citizens of leaving the red zone at night to reach the countryside in order to continue working in the fields.

The mayor, insubordination, take action
"I personally witnessed an unacceptable act of insubordination of over 50 citizens, foreigners and non-foreigners, who, leaving their respective homes and actually violating the sanitary cordon, created fear in the citizenship, which had to attend to the impotence of the few law enforcement officers present. I ask the prefect to take every measure to restore legality. " So the mayor of Mondragone, Virgilio Pacifico.

De Luca: quarantines the buildings 
"We have quarantined all the buildings. Now they must all stay at home, the rules must be respected: for 15 days no one must enter or leave those buildings". This was said by the President of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, who visited Mondragone, in the Caserta area, following the Covid outbreak that broke out in the Palio Cirio area, in 5 buildings, four occupied by the Bulgarian community and one from Italian homeless. "This situation in Mondragone has existed for years and years - he stressed -. But among interior ministers, prefects and mayors, nobody has noticed. I am used to speaking clearly and I asked that strict controls start by tonight h 24 army, police and carabinieri ".

Hope: outbreaks tell us that battle is not won
"The small outbreaks reported in the last few hours tell us that the battle has not yet been won and that graduality and prudence are needed in the coming weeks." This was stated by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, commenting on the situation of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy. A Covid-19 outbreak broke out in Mondragone, in the province of Caserta, in the community of Bulgarian laborers who live in the buildings of the former Cirio, while in Bologna among the workers in the warehouse of the logistics company Bartolini, then extended to some family and acquaintances.

50 soldiers
arrived in Mondragone Army The contingent of 50 soldiers sent by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, arrived in Mondragone to reinforce the surveillance garrison in the area of ​​the former Cirio buildings. This is what is learned from sources of the Interior Ministry. Also today, the same sources explain, in addition to the territorial device, 40 belonging to the police forces have been made available to the police headquarters of Caserta, to which will be added another 30 tomorrow.