Sources at Premier Giuseppe
Conte's office said Wednesday that the government was certain
the construction of the Genoa viaduct that will replace the
Morandi bridge will fully comply with the law.
Earlier on Wednesday Raffaele Cantone, the head of
anti-corruption agency ANAC, expressed doubts about the
government's decree for the reconstruction and said there was a
risk of mafia-infiltration in the work.
The premier's office said the waiver of regulations to speed
up the reconstruction process regarded bureaucratic procedures
and not criminal matters.
Cantone said that the commissioner tasked with overseeing the
construction of a new viaduct to replace the Morandi bridge,
which collapsed in August in a disaster in which 43 people died,
was assigned "unprecedented" powers.
He also warned of the risk of possible mafia infiltration in
the reconstruction work.
"The waiver of all extra-criminal regulations also entails
the waiver of the antimafia code," Cantone told a Lower House
hearing, adding that the decree had "shortcomings".
"I don't think it is necessary to stress the intrinsic risks
in this omission, above all because there are many activities
linked to the reconstruction, from the movement of earth to the
disposal of refuse, in which mafia companies, unfortunately,
have undoubted know-how".
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