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发帖数: 755 | 1 Naples - The Italian army has been ordered to clear tonnes of uncollected
garbage from the rubbish-strewn streets of Naples a week before local
elections in the country's third biggest city.
The government order comes as Berlusconi is due to hold a rally in Naples on
Saturday before the first round of voting on Sunday and Monday and drew an
outraged reaction from the centre-left opposition.
"It is very bad to see the prime minister remember about Naples's garbage
crisis a week before the election," Angelo Bonelli, head of the Greens party
, said.
Local authorities said the 175 soldiers deployed to the city will begin
cleaning the streets, where more than 4 000 tons of garbage lie uncollected,
from Tuesday, starting with hospitals and schools.
Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said on Monday he hoped it would be the
last time that the army - which has been sent to Naples on garbage duty
several times in the past - would have to step in.
But despite Berlusconi's repeated pledges to solve the chronic garbage
crisis in Naples once and for all, trash is again piling up, with refuse
dumps overflowing.
Fire fighters were called out 23 times overnight after residents set fire to
festering piles of garbage.
With the city's only incinerator, not working at full capacity, the soldiers
will move the refuse to dumps in other parts of Italy. |
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