The Municipality of Guidizzolo (MN) adheres to the no slot manifesto

(Jamma) With a council resolution proposed by the majority group and unanimously adopted, the Municipality of Guidizzolo adhered to the 'Manifesto of Mayors for the legality against gambling. Because legality is actually against gambling. «The alarm raised by the first citizens – began the mayor Sergio Desiderati – is extremely worrying, it has always been but especially in this period ». In such a context, the mayors are reacting by asking for a new national law based on the reduction of supply and the containment of access, with adequate information and an activity of prevention and treatment, an activity that Guidizzolo has started a few months ago by approving a project elaborated by 'Ethica Consortium of Social Cooperatives'. The mayors are also asking for regional laws which spell out the tasks and commitments of the Regions for the treatment of pathological gamblers, for risk prevention and for supporting the actions of local authorities. Finally, they ask that the power of ordinance of the mayors themselves be allowed to define the opening hours of the game rooms and to establish the distances of the same from sensitive places and that the Municipalities and local Associations be asked for a preventive and binding opinion for the installation of gambling. By committing to organize themselves into a territorial network between bodies, law enforcement agencies and associations in order to implement prevention and contrast activities by implementing training courses to build new attitudes and new mentalities by recovering the founding values ​​of our societies.