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L'Aquila and its ghosts

One year after the earthquake, tons of rubble are still there, right in the center. Among astronomical costs and propaganda, an effort to balance duty and some promise too.


Until two months ago when the scandal exploded in the Civil Defence, the vast majority of Italians thought that all citizens have a house of Aquila, as the government had promised it would happen before Christmas. Then the investigation of Florence, interceptions with cries of joy of business-hungry jackals from contracts on the skin of the dead have reported some Aquila camera and posted some of the big newspapers. So the Italians have discovered the truth hidden behind the cardboard, unpleasant propaganda.
"L'Aquila - Michele Brambilla wrote on print - is a ghost town and who knows when it will arrive tomorrow. The center is dead. There is only one inhabited house. The few remaining viable can not reopen because they lack the services - water, gas - and why there is a risk that some building collapses nearby. Four million tons of rubble waiting to be taken away. " So much so that after a year of waiting, the people led by Bishop you are armed with shovels and wheelbarrows and have begun to do what the invincible army of San Guido Bertolaso \u200b\u200bhad forgotten to do: leave the center free of debris and rubble. Shops and offices are closed. Ditto for restaurants and hotels.
Of the 67 000 residents left homeless after the quake, 13,408 live in the "Case" (Complex seismic sustainable and environmentally friendly); 4295 in the "Map" (Modules temporary housing: wooden houses donated by the Red Cross and Civil Protection of Trento) . All other hotels are divided between the coast and barracks (L'Aquila 7332), or are guests of friends and relatives in houses or caravans (15000). Only 27 000 have returned to their homes: the residents of scattered sections around the Old City, ghostly still, petrified at the terrible night of April 6, 2009.
It means that nothing has been done? Absolutely not, indeed. The new buildings of the new town (project "Case") are more comfortable in the old container, sad trail of other earthquakes, Belice from Irpinia. But at what price. In less than a year the cost of the new towns have soared by 40% estimate of 570 million, actual expenditure of 800. Total cost (and temporary) preparedness: $ 1.4 billion.
"At the end of the earthquake will be more expensive than ever," explains Teresa Crespellani Republic, former professor of geotechnical earthquake engineering in Florence. The Civil Protection has given 700 thousand euro to a private firm only to evaluate the practicability of the houses before Bertolaso \u200b\u200btask that was entrusted to the technicians of the department at no cost.
But what hurts most is the use of propaganda and election that the government has made the earthquake and reconstruction (never started), impersonating a normal and necessary effort to ever see a miracle in the world, deceiving the people affected, the deceiving ' Italy, passing off as an invention of the Civil Protection and Silvio San Guido San, offending the Friuli and Umbria that gave evidence of hard work and efficiency. And wasting huge resources on unnecessary works: think of € 500 million to equip the Magdalene thrown to the G-8 has never held, plus millions more thrown Aquila to move, except that all he needed to host the catwalks so-called Big World. Espresso
A recent survey revealed that only expenses for television to capture Berlusconi who delivered the houses to the Palazzo Chigi Aquila has thrown 300 000 €: double what had spent the previous Prodi government in two years for all its media events (in 17 months Berlusconi has already spent € 5 million).
icing on the cake, the letter of the PDL coordinator Denis Verdini Abruzzo on the eve of the demonstration in Piazza San Giovanni: "I can not believe that population benefited not fill one hundred buses in addition to those already organized." Population benefitted?

Marco Travaglio
the Spoiler
Anna
April 1, 2010