Pesaro, September 2, 2026 – A toxic cocktail of boredom, alcohol, and social media bravado. They call it “movida,” but it increasingly resembles a war bulletin. Weekend after weekend: it is the signature of baby vandals, a shockwave of youth hooliganism that is short-circuiting the (wild) nights of the Adriatic Riviera. From Pesaro to the Lidi Ferraresi, passing through the Ravenna area. And it is precisely the city of Rossini that has been featured on national news these days, due to incidents from the last weekend.
Maranza in action
The script: damaged umbrellas and sunbeds, advertising billboards kicked in, devastated street furniture, and noise lasting until dawn. The film of incivility began on the night between Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29 with three young people caught on cameras and phones destroying everything in their path in the seaside area. It continued with damage on the beach and noise disturbances, as well as the theft of a car during the night between Saturday and Sunday.
Three vandals identified
Three of them, were identified last night. “The perpetrators of the series of vandalism that affected Pesaro last weekend, between August 28 and 31, have been identified.” Announced the mayor of Pesaro, Andrea Biancani, who explained: “A rapid and coordinated investigation, made possible by close collaboration between the Police Headquarters, law enforcement, and local police, with the crucial support of the Pesaro Municipality’s video surveillance system.”
“The camera footage allowed investigators to reconstruct the movements”
The perpetrators are three young people from Pesaro, two adults and one minor. We recall that the group had kicked several advertising panels before moving to the historic center, where some parked scooters were targeted. “The footage from public and private cameras has allowed investigators to reconstruct the movements and identify those responsible.”
Car theft and chase
And, as if that were not enough, the following night, between Saturday, August 29 and Sunday, August 30, three young people were intercepted by law enforcement after stealing a car. A chase ensued, ending with a crash into a wall and police intervention, who then arrested them. Subsequent checks confirmed that two of the detained youths – one adult and one minor, both residents of Pesaro – were the same involved in the vandalism the previous night.
Meeting convened by the Prefect
To assess the escalation and launch an organic countermeasure, an emergency meeting was held on Monday, convened by the Prefect of Pesaro and Urbino, Emanuela Saveria Greco. She emphasized the firm intention not to limit to repression alone, but to tackle the phenomenon on multiple fronts, starting from the core of the issue: family and education. Greco strongly stressed “the need to directly involve the parents of the minors involved in the rampages, recalling the importance of family responsibility also in terms of sanctions and compensation for damages caused by their children.”
The case of the Lidi Ferraresi
A photocopy postcard is what the Lidi Ferraresi, especially Lido di Spina and Lido degli Estensi, have been showing for weeks, the scene of systematic night and dawn raids. Here the beaches turn every night into an outlet for real swarms of vandals. The material damage for beach operators is enormous: entire front rows of umbrellas torn and uprooted, poles broken in half, sunbeds destroyed or piled up as a game to form precarious ‘houses of cards’.
For the managers of the establishments, the limit has been reached, from Marche to Emilia Romagna. Beyond the economic devastation, incivility forces operators to lose precious working hours every morning at dawn to restore the facilities before the arrival of bathers. A desperate defense to guard the territory in the face of a social phenomenon that now requires a collective and incisive response from all institutions.
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