A quick Bing Translation from a Toot posted by Aristotele - I could find a Spanish article for the text he posted here but no English version yet.

Source from a Bing Search -- https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-graves-tensiones-italia-primeros-saqueos-supermercados-y-llamadas-rebelion-202003281411_noticia.html

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Serious tensions in southern Italy: first looting in supermarkets and calls for rebellion. Citizens in difficulty over the crisis launch aggressive messages on social media, calling for the revolt.

The health emergency also becomes, as feared, a social emergency in southern Italy: Strong social protests are feared and the first looting has begun, forcing supermarkets to be given special surveillance. From the south, a cry of alarm emerges from the south that Italian mayors and information services echo that warn the government: "People are hungry." The signs are many and dramatic, becoming viral in a few hours. One of them is a video of a father and daughter biting a slice of bread with Nutella; he is threateningly addressed to Prime Minister Conte and the mayor of Palermo in a threatening way: "If my daughter will not be able to eat a piece of bread we will go asaltar the supermarkets."

Precisely in Palermo, an organized group of twenty people showed up, in front of the boxes of a Lidl supermarket – in viale Regione, one of the largest and most frequented in Palermo – with their carts full of products, refusing to pay while shouting: "Enough being at home, we have no money to pay, we have to eat". Supermarket employees called police and carabinieri as panic loathed among the large crowd waiting on the street, queuing with a one-metre distance of safety between people. The chaos dragged on for hours. To avoid the worst, law enforcement is watching today to protect supermarkets in Palermo and other cities

Calls to revolts
Calls to the revolt spread like gunpowder on social media. Facebook has opened the profile of a group called "Noi", which encourages the revolt with a slogan: "Recover what they take from us". Within hours it had hundreds of followers, some of whom are organized by chat. Your messages leave no room for doubt. Some say: "Those who are ready for war on the 3rd (the date scheduled for the end of the emergency, although it is assumed that the government will decree an extension), it must write it down here", "we must break all supermarkets". Another writes: "The problem is immediate, children should eat."

Like this is Alexander's message: "I do not wait for April, I am without a euro, my family must eat". Many put videos, showing their identity, calling for social revolt, making their own children see. Luky shouts in one of these videos: "At home there may be those who have a fixed salary, if we are to be locked up, the state has to take us food and must pay the rents, we are not Cristiano Ronaldo: Here three quarters of Italians work in black; Rebel!" According to a recent study by the CGIL (main Italian union), in Palermo and province one worker in three works in black.

Street robberies
The call to looting the supermecados is not only in Sicily, it extends to other places in the south. In that half of Italian territory, the submerged economy employs nearly four million people. In Campania, particularly in some areas of the province of Naples, street thefts have increased, with people removing bags with the products that some customers have just bought in supermarkets. Rare is the day where in some southern provinces there is no assault on a pharmacy. There are people who shout their anguish and hunger from the balcony: In Bari, the capital of Puglia, the Councillor for Social Affairs, Francesca Bottaloci, had to personally introduce hesar to bring two packages of necessities to a family that had put in social media a video screaming from the balcony of your house: "We don't have any money anymore, we don't have anything. Come and see it."

The so-called 007, the information service, has produced a reserved report sent to Prime Minister Conte and Interior Minister Lamorgese with this warning: "There is a potential danger of revolts and rebellions, spontaneous and organized, especially in southern Italy, where the submerged economy and the capillary presence of organized crime are two of the main risk factors." No one escapes that the mafias are always ready to take advantage of any explosive occasion. For mafia organizations, the coronavirus represents an optimal opportunity for their criminal businesses.

This risk from the Mafia is warned by Palermo's mayor Leoluca Orlando, who warns that organized crime will take advantage of leading the revolts. The ruler of the Sicilian capital calls on the government to grant a survival income: "Alongside many who live this moment of very serious crisis with anguish but with dignity, there are groups of jackals and protest professionals who promote action violent people, characters and groups that show and claim their mafia membership. I ask all citizens to report them to the police authorities," warns the mayor of Palermo.

There are several wary ones who sound the alarm, among them some of an area with high criminality, the Campania, where the camorra considers that it is presented with a golden opportunity. Ciro Buonajuto, mayor of Herculano, threatened by the camorra, reported: "We have a youth unemployment of 75%, who works does so in many cases in precarious; I now fear the economic-social effects: usury, drug trafficking, the business of camorra can spread...".

"Attention to the south, it can explode"
He echoes the unrest in the "Mezzogiorno" the minister for the south, Peppe Provenzano, who in an interview tells Repubblica today: "Attention to the south, can explode. We must act quickly, the maintenance of democracy is at risk. Citizenship income must be extended' (this is financial aid, around EUR 550 on average, offered by the State to those who are not employed).

In this context of the very serious crisis caused by the coronavirus, it is also explained the dramatic speech that on Friday night the President of the Republic, Giorgio Mattarella, addressed to the country, with an eye on Brussels: "We are living a sad page of our history. We've seen images that it'll be impossible to forget. Some territories, and in particular older generations, are paying a very high price. Europe must understand the seriousness of the threat, or it will be too late. Further common initiatives are indispensable," Mattarella added, overcoming old schemes that are already outside the reality of the dramatic conditions in which our Continent is located."

The well-known Italian scientist Silvio Garatini has said these days: "The meaning of life comes before the meaning of business. But someone has reversed the priorities." With Europe in mind, a diplomat said it in other words: "When the dead count, the billions are not counted."