Mayor Venice tackles expensive restaurants

The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, is going to do something for, among others, four Japanese people who say he has gotten a bill of 1100 euro in his town for four steaks, a plate of fried fish and water.

Three women who belonged to the company, but went to another restaurant, ate there for a 'Venetian sting'. For three meals, they only had to pay 350 euros.

Brugnaro called it a shame according to the BBC and has promised to investigate the case to the bottom. He is not the only Venetian who makes himself angry about the too high prices. The Gruppo 25 aprile interest group has also attracted the fate of the Japanese students.

The action group of about 1,800 'purebred' Venetians opposes massive tourism and extortionate prices in the center of the city, because residents are also victims of it. According to this action group, the high cost of living in ancient Venice has already driven 100,000 original Venetians from the center of the city in the past sixty years.