Once it was dinner with a view - on the monuments or a panoramic viewpoint dotted with lights - today it is a surreal experience, other than a relaxing and soothing rendezvous after a day of work. You scroll through the menu in a state of alert, ready to snap into the chair if the wild boar rooting in the overgrown flowerbed a few meters from the restaurant should prefer a steaming amatriciana to the garbage thrown around the bins. It happens at the outdoor tables of a Bufalotta restaurant where, in recent weeks, customers have spotted the ungulate for the umpteenth time: «Fortunately he was not aggressive, he was looking for food among the brushwood - they say - but it is paradoxical.
When we take the dog out, if he barks he risks becoming a target ... Many families with children live here, the situation has become unbearable". In the restaurant, by now, they have equipped themselves: «The waiter went to get a bar in case the wild boar got too close, endangering the safety of people». To the problem, which unites many districts of the northern quadrant of the city, the dirt due to the non-collection of garbage bags is added that come out of the overflowing bins in the main streets of Porta di Roma, not far from the shopping center.
The state of neglect is also reflected in the (non-existent) care of the green between sidewalks infested with weeds, pruning that has not been carried out since time immemorial, cycle path invaded by shrubs that make it impracticable. The inhabitants wrote numerous emails to the Department of the Environment of the III Municipality, who answered only once in a random and not decisive way - in addition to report the presence of the wild boar is to the number 060606, both to Ama. Result: the promiscuity between humans and wild animals continues, in spite of the risks to safety and health, while filth grows at every corner (Corriere della Sera).