Viareggio massacre 15 years later, Mattarella: “Indispensable security”

ROME – “Infrastructure networks, including railways, are an essential condition for the life and economic development of the country. Safety is an indispensable prerequisite, as well as being a primary right of citizens and users. We cannot derogate from acquired standards; on the contrary, the level of safety must be raised through more effective controls and technologies and a general growth in awareness”. This is what the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, wrote in a note on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Massacre of Viareggio.

“Safety in transport, like safety at work, is an indicator of civilization that must prevail over any logic of profit, because it affects people’s lives. This is a lesson that must never be forgotten” added the head of state.

“On the night of June 29, 2009, Viareggio was struck by the consequences of a train disaster that, today as then, seems unacceptable. The images and memory of that tragedy remain indelible. On the fifteenth anniversary, the Republic is close to the families who saw their loved ones unexpectedly taken from life and who, in their grief, were able to initiate a civil process to ascertain the responsibilities for what happened and to promote, everywhere, greater safety in transport”

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