Italian police covered playing cards in the woods retirees

Then they went deep into the forest: here in a special secluded spot men waited hidden plastic table and chairs. Elderly card players were not even wearing masks. As reported by la Repubblica Milano, to meet and play cards, they told the families that want to go shopping, buy a newspaper or have found other similar excuses. Have given them too much of a gamble reaction during the game: several law-abiding citizens who passed through the canal reported strange old cries that were heard from the thick forest. So the case involved local law enforcement officers that brought the “old men-robbers” to the nearest police station.

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fortunately, for violators of the quarantine, the police did not draw up reports on gamblers and not subjected to administrative penalty as it should be in accordance with the new restrictions on the period of isolation. Men simply held a preventive conversation carried them home with the admonition that family in any case do not let them out of the house. Now fans of the gambling gambling game will grind your skills and to have fun with numerous online resources on the Internet.

the Mayor Castano Primo Giuseppe Pignatello, who received information about the incident on his page in social networks from one of the users said that he knew a place where going to the elderly. “This place is always visited all year round, summer and winter. In the cooler months and the elderly are going to light a fire and keep warm. We clearly explained to the citizens that in the period of isolation no one should gather in groups, and the bolee people over 65 years, – the mayor told. – I think they didn’t realize what risks they are going. At first I was very angry. Then I felt funny.”

Meanwhile, police Castano Primo has strengthened inspections. “Just yesterday, the man who ran far beyond 200 meters from his home, and people living in another municipality in the area, which went to the Newsstand, was stopped and fined”, – said Pignatello.