Rome businesses and consumers
joined forces to fight urban neglect and widespread unlawfulness
in the nation's capital on Monday.
Codacons consumer group, Comitas micro-business association
and the Catering and Tourism Interregional Federation (FIRST)
formed a committee called RomaxBene (Respectable Rome), on whose
website concerned citizens and visitors are invited to report
all forms of neglect - from potholes to illegally dumped trash
to vendors operating without a license to tourists being
fleeced.
The committee intends to report to report to police all
such incidents, as well as suspected racketeering, consumer
fraud, and unlawful occupations of public land or real estate.
"We're tired of there not being enough inspections in this
city," said Codacons President Carlo Rienzi. "Citizens are
taking back the possibility of controlling the things that don't
work. Here in Rome everything goes in slow motion, and there's
very little oversight".
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