(Jamma) "As known to all - writes ASTRO -, the Municipal regulation of Genoa has eliminated the lawful gaming by means of devices, guaranteeing the citizenry to return free from the slavery of the legal game - controlled - and managed by verified operators (for bets unauthorized and illegal devices however there are no preclusions).
The Ligurian capital, therefore, completes its picture of a "perfect" metropolis, in which even the last piece of administrative optimization (the ban on lawful gaming) has achieved full implementation.
The previous "pieces" have been set up over time and today the fortunate citizenry can derive the benefits from reading the budget estimate prepared by the Municipal Administration, defended by the FFOO in riot gear for the popular "rebellion" going on in these hours at doors of Palazzo Tursi:
At risk is the Carlo Felice theatre, a temple of European opera owned by the municipality, for which as many as 48 orchestras were considered "redundant", and the remainder deserving only solidarity contracts;
At risk the survival of the municipal companies of local transport, road maintenance, waste collection, as well as municipal pharmacies and housing for the poor, all realities that can no longer be managed by the Municipality and destined for "cold" private outsourcing;
At risk the port, oppressed by years of industrial decline, and now even without the control tower;
The hydro-geological stability of the area is at risk, for which a few rainy days can always turn into a tragedy.
Now, finally, the thousand employees of the legal gaming sector operating in the municipal area are also at risk, as well as the same number of administration activities which, due to the contraction of working hours and the zeroing of the value of commercial goodwill (this is the effect of the scheduled and non-renewable expiry of the current authorizations for the installation of lawful slots) are heading towards their inevitable disappearance.
Added to this enviable record, which reveals the prosperity of the local budget, is the initiative to incentivize, with the proceeds of municipal taxes, those establishments that will immediately remove the legal slots (perhaps to offer other unauthorized gaming products after having collected the municipal aid, given the non-incompatibility between ILLEGAL GAMING and MUNICIPAL CONTRIBUTION envisaged, in fact, only for the removal of lawful slots). Obviously, there was no thought of encouraging establishments that respect the law, by not serving alcohol to minors or avoiding degrading the venue as a meeting place for socially dangerous people, nor was it thought of "opposing" establishments that host unauthorized betting collection points and registered in the municipality as "data collection centres". The municipal resources, thriving thanks to the increase in the IMU, must help anti-gambling and can well save themselves for such futile purposes as culture or the public management of fundamental services for the most ordinary and needy people.
In the face of this rational use of administrative power, one wonders how many other cities aspire to emulate its performance in the management of public affairs: strange but true, but some other cities have preferred to "listen" to the categories, reasoning with them solutions that introduce territory entrepreneurial precautions suitable for empowering users to avoid gambling excesses, and to have recourse to specialist aids in the event of “found compulsivity. Chaos does not reign in these cities, and even the presence of legal slots in public exercises proves to be a harbinger of no more than 10-20 GAP patients assisted by the SERTs. In these cities, we even come to conceive of the game as a phenomenon to be monitored, in the awareness of having to check over time (and therefore possibly re-modulate) the effectiveness of the preventive interventions put in place (training and information).
These cities do not occupy the front pages of the newspapers, they are not flags of anti-gambling, but they often manage to keep local transport, infrastructure and essential services public and efficient, even stubbornly considering unemployment and illegality as a priority for institutional intervention. In the hope that all of this can be "forgiven", we hope for their ever-increasing proliferation".
