A group of evacuees from the
August 14 Genoa bridge collapse demanded rehousing and respect
after they were admitted to a Genoa council meeting on the
disaster on Tuesday.
They urged local and national officials to provide guarantees
on their future.
The protestors passed out leaflets titled 'The Morandi Bridge
People' saying "50 years of service, two weeks of suffering".
They chanted "respect, respect" at the meeting.
They were said to be about 50 in all.
They told Ligura Governor and extraordinary commissioner for
the disaster Giovanni Toti: "We come before the businesses, we
come before the transport system, we're first, we want homes!".
The collapse killed 43 people and caused the evacuation of
many flats below the bridge.
The evacuees are right, Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said
later Tuesday.
"They're perfectly right, you can't leave people at the whim
of Autostrade hand-outs", he said.
Di Maio said an urgent government decree was being readied to
address the rehousing of the Genoa evacuees.
"It's a question of weeks but perhaps also a few days and
then we'll put out this decree," he said.
A demolition project for Genoa's collapsed Morandi Bridge
will be presented by Autostrade per l'Italia "within five days,"
Liguria Governor and emergency commissioner Toti said Tuesday.
"In five days' time Autostrade will present us with the
definitive plan for the demolition of the Morandi Bridge," he
told a council meeting.
"The plan will be illustrated to the technical committees and
first and foremost to the prosecutors whose decision it is to
de-sequester the area and get to the truth on the causes of the
tragedy," he said.
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