No date for the reopening of the discos. The deadline for the restart was set by the government at 10 July but to today no club in Italy knows whether or not it will be able to open next weekend. The anger of the managers, who see their Spanish and German colleagues working safely, was great. And fueled by the silence of politics which for days has not issued statements on the subject. With the green light from the CTS to the so-called Covid free protocol, from North to South, clubs and discos hoped to reopen after 18 months of hiatus. In the absence of the OK from the Ministry of Health the managers of the discos have chosen the path of protest.
The anger of the managers
We are ready to demonstrate and take to the streets, in Rome, to remind you that discos exist and can reopen safely. The slogan will be: Free to dance, explains Roberto Maggialetti, owner of the Df disco in Bisceglie, among the first to nominate his structure as headquarters to test the anti-covid protocol. In Umbria, the managers of the clubs arrived in front of the Rai headquarters in Perugia. The closure of the discos is no longer tolerable, let’s think about the reopening of the clubs with green pass and reduced capacity, says Enzo Muscinelli, president of Silb Umbria Confcommercio. The managers of the Sardinian clubs also went to the Rai headquarters in Sassari which were then received by the prefect. We haven’t worked for months, certainly the 4 or 5 evenings made last year cannot be enough for us to survive, and for the whole winter we remained at zero turnover. We ourselves proposed to open with green pass and halving capacity, but nothing. No opening, zero refreshments and a lot of desperation, underlines Piero Muresu, president for the province of Sassari del Silb. a tragic situation, we are ruined. All the more so since the aid has been clearly insufficient, Martina Morosi, provincial president of the dance clubs union, adds from Trentino.
The national union
The words of the national president Silb-Fipe, Maurizio Pasca, who represents 90% of the companies in the sector, are also harsh. I expect the reopening of our activities – he says – like what is happening in all sectors: why do we dance in the squares and bars and not in our clubs that would be Covid free? Why does the government allow this? The government complicit in the illegal activity that is developing throughout the territory.
The president also launches an appeal to politics by writing in a note: it was declared that by 10 July the opening date would be defined, in the meantime the premises have arranged the rooms, found the staff, carried out the necessary orders, contracted artists and formats , and they prepared themselves with zeal after a year of closure. but yet we are the last in Europe not to have a certain date, unlike Greece, England, Spain, Croatia and Germany. And now? Is the decision still postponed by talking about refreshments? Are we still the last to have to reopen? It is time to seriously address the problems of our category and above all to listen to our proposals which represent the only solution to restart safely as soon as possible.