Nuovo programma del comune di Venezia contro la produzione e il commercio illegale di borse contraffatte appartenenti a prestigiose marche italiane e internazionali .

New program of the municipality of Venice against the production and illegal trade of counterfeit bags belonging to prestigious international brands and Italian.

 Bad Bag

A new program by the Comune of Venice is slapping leviathan fines on people who buy counterfeit designer goods from those guys with the open-air blanket-bottegas that seem to be at the foot of every bridge. How does a 10000 Euro fine sound for that ratskin Prada-like wallet? Believe it or not, it's possible.

The program is called "Bad Bag", and posters have gone up all over town warning  visitors of the new down-side to "brand crimes". It's interesting that the program name is in English. I'm guessing that we anglophones comprise the biggest chunk of the target market.