Rubbish piles up again in Naples as waste dump is put on hold
Italian government suspends plans for new facility after month of violent protests. The Italian government today offered to suspend the opening of a new waste dump near Naples in an attempt to halt violent protests that have lit up the night sky over Mount Vesuvius for a month.
Demonstrators have set fire to vehicles trying to bring rubbish into an existing dump, blocked the road leading to it with tree trunks and fought police with rocks, firecrackers and Molotov cocktails. Police today said they had found a small quantity of explosives in the town of Terzigno, close to the scene of the nightly clashes.
Rubbish has meanwhile been piling up in the streets of Naples and the surrounding region of Campania, creating a situation reminiscent of a crisis two years ago that helped dispose of Italy's last, centre-left government. Read more at <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/naples-rubbish-waste-dump-riots" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the Guardian</a>
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