(ANSA) – MILAN, June 28 – In Castelverde, about 6 thousand inhabitants in the province of Cremona, there are no traffic police (there are only two) and the mayor with a second term, Graziella Locci, has banned funeral processions on foot “for security reasons”. To reach the town cemeteries, in fact, you have to cross via Bergamo, a very busy provincial road. Today, Corriere della Sera reports on the provision of the Municipality in the local pages.
“To allow the crossing to take place safely, to avoid possible dangers to the road traffic of vehicles and pedestrians – explains the mayor -, we must guarantee the presence of personnel who are not always available”. The point is that the police are few: “They only have two. This lack of personnel does not always ensure the presence of agents during funeral processions, because they are called to perform other institutional duties. We have activated the agreement with the Police local of Cremona that from the Command sends us a policeman four mornings a month, but the territory is so vast that it is impossible to guard it all “. From here the stop to follow the coffin on foot up to the cemeteries, extended to the whole municipal territory “in order not to create differentiations, even if in particular cases it is possible to ask for exceptions to the municipal offices”, continues the mayor. The ordinance, three pages in all, regulates funeral times and prohibitions. Anyone who transgresses will be fined. Not only that: “The transgressors – underlines the mayor – will, in any case, be charged with any responsibility deriving from behaviors that do not comply with the requirements”. “I am sorry to touch on these sensitive issues dear to citizens, but safety is particularly important to me.
I couldn’t help but take this decision “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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