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Owners Close Largo Maradona After Police Seize Merchandise and Carts

A land‑use review will weigh market designation sought by the owners to resolve licensing disputes.

Overview

  • The piazzale housing Naples’ Maradona mural is currently inaccessible after proprietors shut the site in protest.
  • Municipal police reported seizing shirts and souvenirs, five unauthorized beverage carts, and two unlicensed fixed shops, issuing €5,000 fines.
  • Officers documented about 9.4 square meters of unlawful public-space occupation and filed a criminal complaint over an alleged illegal power hookup.
  • The owners’ lawyer disputes a broad merchandise seizure at Largo Maradona, saying enforcement concerned a contravention and an ambulant van subject to challenge.
  • City technical offices are verifying the urban use of roughly 200 square meters as the proprietors seek to regularize the area as a designated market through the Chamber of Commerce.