The drama of drug addiction in the underground parking lots of the Civic Market . For some time now, several people have been using the internal stairs of the entrances to consume drugs and leave evidence of their use. Syringes, blood-soaked handkerchiefs, tourniquets are the frequent and often reported legacies left by those who use the facility.

"Once - says a customer - I even found syringes with the needle pointing upwards ". The parking lot in the historic center has thus become one of the favorite meeting places for heroin addicts, generating an inevitable alarm.

"It's clear - says another customer - that people are afraid to go down at night , also because they are always increasing in number". The boom took hold since the end of covid and at the same time as the growth of drug dealing between via San Donato and San Sisto , in the lower part of Corso Vittorio Emanuele.

And it seems that the most sold substance, as in the 80s, is heroin. "In addition to needles and the rest - other witnesses report - we often find their organic "souvenirs", from pee to feces". A problematic situation that certainly cannot be solved by those who manage the parking lot and that has been brought to the attention of the institutions. The paradoxical aspect is that, nearby, work continues on the Civic Market, a work for the future of the city while, a few steps away, a scenario linked to a past of addiction that was thought to be forgotten is being proposed again.

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