Scenes of childhood denied in the heart of ancient Naples. For several weeks now, as the citizens of the neighborhood have denounced on several occasions, groups of nomad children roam around Forcella, rummaging through the bins in search of materials to be recovered for the infamous rubbish markets.
In the vast majority of cases they are children no more than ten years old, almost always dressed in rags, who climb among the mountains of rubbish in the shade of the heavy scaffolding that reminds of the 1980 earthquake and which represent a thorny problem for a neighborhood in full revival in a tourist perspective.
According to the reconstructions of the residents the children would be accompanied to the first lights of the dawn then then to be picked up again in the afternoon. Armed with large plastic bags, they collect the recoverable materials without disdaining to ask alms from the many passing tourists.
Particularly "welcome" are the clothing and electronic items that are sold for a few cents in the rubbish bin market at Porta Nolana. The famous free trade area, ventilated by Palazzo San Giacomo as a solution to social and urban degradation is, at the moment, still a chimera.
