Fires and protests greet cabinet in Naples

Article reports that barricades in the streets of Naples and the smoking remains of a torched gypsy camp await the first official cabinet meeting on the 21 May 2008 of Italy’s new government under Silvio Berlusconi. The Prime Minister promised in his April 2008 election campaign to take his ministers from Rome to Naple whose descent into the stinking chaos of piles of uncollected garbage became a rallying cry for his centre-right coalition.