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Italians up in arms over ‘The War on Panini’s’

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    Mayor of Rome bans food at popular tourist attractions

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Police shoot girl off the Spanish step in the event.

She says it's not fair.

Critics call it the war on -- -- Italians call sandwiches.

But those behind the new ban on snacking around Rome's historic monuments.

Say this city has fallen to a level of unsustainable.

Vulgarity with all the passionate public displays of consumption going on about -- An executive order established by the mayor of Rome John -- mono and eating food.

Food on the Spanish steps that the -- -- and around other well known tourist attractions.

All punishable my mind.

It's an order which has taken many visitors might surprise I think it's this crazy cement.

Why I must pay fifty years.

Because I think my favorite the ice cream -- this phone thing.

Fines can range in the equivalent of about 35 to 650.

Dollars all to keep the eternal city clean and I think thanks.

They have rights it's not -- week -- -- we cut and projects the violence.

So far the -- -- this has been worse than the night.

Police -- -- -- people to take their -- -- elsewhere that define them when rove needs tourism in this town to be eternal to.

After all let dolce pizza experience involves food but officials say it's a matter of decorum.

A fleeting.

It may even go unnoticed but anything approximating a picnic near an iconic site will surely -- in a bit of trouble.

Similar restrictions apply and some other Italian cities to.

The hope is that the rules won't deter tourists but I can be an historic sites clean -- just keep them coming Amy Kellogg.

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