Government representative Meloni received a delegation from the Fight Committee led by Laura Iovinelli and continues to play the blame game
The Minister for Civil Protection and Maritime Policies Nello Musumeci received a delegation from the Emergency Committee of the Campi Flegrei of Pozzuoli today in Rome. The delegation, led by Laura Iovinelli, explained to the minister the committee’s proposals and the delays that were evident in helping families forced to leave their homes, made unusable by the earthquake on the evening of May 20th. Minister Musumeci, specifies a note, has ensured his intervention to verify the punctuality of the activities carried out so far on the relief front by the Campania Region and the municipalities involved.
“The minister was surprised that we had not yet received contributions for independent accommodation for the displaced and assured me that he will write to the Region giving 8 days to implement this measure” – said Laura Iovinelli. The minister would also have declared himself available for ad hoc contracts for displaced people.
Regarding the request for a plan for the anti-seismic safety of homes located in the Campi Flegrei. Musumeci announced the government’s commitment to securing and strengthening unusable buildings, excluding illegal dwellings.
“Another thing that surprised the minister was that the citizens of Pozzuoli can no longer count on fixed structures where they can find shelter during earthquakes” – highlighted Laura Iovinelli. “In practice, Minister Musumeci said that it was our choice to live here, that we knew we were living in a caldera, that the State cannot force people to leave or make contributions to make them leave, the State cannot take charge of it” – added Iovinelli.
Therefore, Minister Musumeci behaves like “Alice in Wonderland”, shifting blame and responsibility onto the Campania Region and local authorities. Usual game of passing the buck, techniques of the politics of postponement. And he did not fail to blame the people residing in the territories of the Campi Flegrei. Once again the national institutions will attempt to use emergencies to carry out the evacuation of hundreds of people, also using anxiety and fear and favor urban-territorial restructuring processes to the delight of the real estate lobbies
An inert minister. A minister with a high sense of institutions should, instead, activate an organic plan of interventions, appropriate initiatives to suspend, first and foremost, the payment of rents and mortgages for citizens who cannot live in unusable homes. Introduce a sort of rent cap in the surrounding areas and municipalities to block speculation and speculators of all kinds; the recognition of compensation for citizens until their homes are renovated and made safe. And not only. Those displaced from unusable buildings should be hosted in safe requisitioned buildings in the Phlegraean area and not in hotels located in the province of Caserta.
Ciro Crescentini
