President Sergio Mattarella said Tuesday that Italy's public institutions frequently do not show their presence strongly enough in the peripheral areas of the country's cities.
"In some realities of our country, urban peripheries are vehicles of inequality and marginalisation, 'non-places' where a widespread sense of abandonment and mistrust prevails, where institutions often appear distant," Mattarella said in a statement for the first 'National Day of Urban Suburbs'.
He head of State said this brought "the risk of exacerbating social fractures, of seeing illegality grow, thus hindering people's personal and collective growth, and dissipating the future of children and young people living in these contexts and, with them, the future of Italy,"
