About five hundred people damaged by the flood that occurred last November are demonstrating in the procession that left from Sesto Fiorentino towards Florence.
The participants in the protest started from the civil motorization car park and reached the Novoli headquarters of the Tuscany Region to ask for the hydrogeological safety of the territory and for contributions for the reconstruction and compensation of the damage suffered due to the flood that hit the Plain of Florence, in particular Campi Bisenzio.
The mayor of Montemurlo: “We can’t wait any longer”
Mayor Simone Calamai, candidate for mayor Tutti per Montemurlo, took part today, at the invitation of the Bagnolo flood victims committee, in the demonstration in Florence from Osmannoro to the headquarters of the Tuscany Region in Novoli, “Never again 2 November 2023” called by the committees of Tuscan flood victims.
Calamai asks for: resources and quick responses to improve the hydraulic safety of the area and allow people, companies and organizations to start the recovery process.
“It is important – says Calamai – that greater attention is paid to Tuscany and all the territories affected by the flood which was enormous. We want quick answers both on the needs of the interventions of the institutions that must be carried out in our territory, and for the people who have suffered damage. It is inconceivable that even today not one euro has arrived from the Government to the flood victims, and it is inconceivable that there is still no certainty that all emergency sums will be covered. We ask that resources also arrive quickly for the structural works necessary to make the territory completely safe, because mitigation interventions are important and therefore everything necessary for reconstruction is needed. Time is precious and interventions in the area must be speeded up. I am here so that there are responses from the Government towards Tuscany. Real and fast answers, both to private individuals, to companies and for the works to be undertaken. In addition to the urgent needs, we also need a real plan for environmental mitigation works that allows us to finance them all, and for the improvement of our territories so that it can be increased quickly and strongly, even for extreme events such as climate change is showing us , which are occurring more and more frequently.”
The mayor of Campi Bisenzio: “The government should immediately appoint a commissioner”
“Let the Government appoint the commissioner for reconstruction, our territory must be made hydraulically safe” said Andrea Tagliaferri, mayor of Campi Bisenzio.
“Campi Bisenzio was the most affected area, over 30 thousand people were affected. We are here to ask that our territory be made hydraulically safe but reconstruction must be carried out. The first step is to appoint the commissioner for reconstruction who has not yet been appointed. The appeal is addressed to the government because this decision is in its hands. Furthermore, government contributions to families have yet to be sent to the Region.”
“We have suffered over 300 million euros in damage – he continues –. There are still families away from home, families who have not received anything and as local authorities we have not been compensated. We have over 12 million euros of committed expenses that we cannot liquidate because we have not had any type of compensation and other interventions that we cannot yet do because we do not know if this money will reach us.”
“Then there is the emergency phase which still needs to be concluded – he added – Thousands of families still need to have the immediate support which is called that because it should be immediate, but we are over six months from the event”.
The opening of the Region
Absolute availability, from the first days of next week, to meet the representatives of the citizens’ committees of the Florentine plain, and in particular of Campi Bisenzio, affected by the flood of last November. This is what the president of the Tuscany Region communicated following the initiative organized today by the committees themselves and which ended in front of the Novoli management center of the Tuscany Region.
Source: Municipality of Montemurlo – Press Office
