The mayor of Catanzaro Nicola Fiorita he entrusted some reflections to social media that he published on social media today, Sunday 10 November.
EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SERVICES TO GET OUT OF THE “BRONX”
I don’t know any other recipes for healing the social wounds in the southern neighborhoods of the city, Viale Isonzo, Aranceto, Pistoia, what has perhaps excessively been defined as the Bronx of Catanzaro. The violent episode the other afternoon in the Pistoia neighborhood confirms that repression alone, although indispensable, is not enough. Anyone who commits crimes should be sent to prison, but who thinks about the children, minors and women who are involved in this subculture? We have to take care of it, even with the enormous economic difficulties from which the Municipality suffers. If we do not take children and young people off the streets, if we do not educate them about good and beauty, one hundred police and Carabinieri patrols will not be enough to eradicate complex and delicate social phenomena. We are trying. The new school in Aranceto, the new sports facility in Corvo, the arrangement of small meeting spaces represent a first step. We will do many more, as soon as the ministry authorizes us (us and the other cities involved in the project) to spend the Metroplus funding. In the meantime, we are waiting for Aterp to do its part, following up on spending 7 million euros to redevelop homes and give dignity to the honest people who live in those areas.
UMG, MORE CAN BE DONE
UMG, our University, is under attack. The climate that has been created does not help and also risks tarnishing the many good things produced by our University. However, sticking your head in the sand like ostriches and hiding the problems would be wrong. I said it last Sunday and I’ll say it again today.
UMG must be able to get out of the narrow “triangle” of medicine-law-pharmacy, which also needs to be strengthened (decisive for medicine are the take-off of the “Dulbecco” company and the financing for the new hospital).
There are many educational areas to explore in an international vision of the University, capable of attracting foreign students and encouraging graduates’ entry into the world of work. And much must also be done in terms of services and post-graduate training.
But I will return to this topic in the next few days, even at the cost of violating the autonomy of the university and of pressing all those who can and must do something for our university, whose destiny – let’s say it clearly – is also the destiny of the city .