Coronavirus, cannot go to Sicily: dozens of cars stuck on the Strait. Musumeci: “The state must intervene”

There are dozens of cars, about two hundred people, seventy families with dependent minors, elderly and – it seems – pure pregnant women. They are stuck at Villa San Giovanni, Calabrian side of the Strait of Messina, but they will not be able to take the ferry to the Sicily. The reason? Many are not in compliance with the government decree to combat the coronavirus emergency. “The state should intervene,” says the governor of the island, In the Musumeci. “We are evaluating every single case, on those who have one valid motivation to move or those who are at risk of being reported for violations of the government’s provisions for the emergency “, they let the Police of Villa San Giovanni know.

There are therefore families but also individual motorists who are boarding: they have been camping for about 24 hours. To alleviate the inconvenience, the Red Cross and Civil Protection with the municipality served hot meals yesterday evening, while breakfast was distributed this morning. But the voltage on the vehicle storage apron at the exit of the A2 motorway remains high. The prefecture of Reggio Calabria has asked to activate a garrison along the highway to check the cars heading for boarding. “The cars at Villa San Giovanni must not arrive, we know that there are checks at about 30 km but the patrols must be set up at border with Campania, on the highway: they must not enter Calabria, let alone Sicily, “says the governor Musumeci.

“Unfortunately, there are beyond in the square of Villa San Giovanni 200 people, households with children, pregnant women and the elderly, we do not know if they are affected by particular pathologies. They have already spent one night in the car, they risk spending a second night. The line of firmness is known, the laws must be respected by everyone, they knew that they could not cross the Strait of Messina“, Always says the governor. “I – Musumeci continues – I have no power to bring them into Sicily, the power is of the state. But rigor must go hand in hand with the humanitarian spirit, we cannot pretend nothing is happening, we are all parents, we are all children: we wrote Interior Minister, saying the state determined the gathering at Villa San Giovanni and State must solve problem. ”

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