Jubilee takes all the hotels, no place for the Romans if disasters should strike

Giuseppe Napolitano, director of the civil protection department of Rome Capital, said this at a hearing in the Capitoline Environment Commission

ROME – “Let’s not forget that next year, when the city is completely full, we will not have space in hotels even for citizens who will be affected by critical events of Civil Protection”. She said it Giuseppe Napolitanodirector of the civil protection department of Rome Capital, at a hearing in the Capitoline Environment Commission.
To guarantee hospitality to Roman victims (for example) of an explosion or fire in their home as well as to those tens of thousands of people who could remain stranded in one of Rome’s railway stationsfollowing a motorway or railway blockade in conjunction with an orange-type jubilee event, the Capitoline Civil Protection is looking for “spaces in the stations to be able to put up safeguards and we will ask the voluntary organizations that have an office to make investments, which we will reimburse, to make them suitable to be reception places – added Napolitano – So cots, toilets and a minimum of refreshment capacity to multiply the reception capacity”.

“There is also an interesting one reception path pure, not civil protection, which concerns programming with the use of public resources in agreement with third sector bodies and is related to the theme of widespread reception – added Napolitano – We have concluded the co-programming process, co-planning will start soon and here too we will have a significant impact from the world of volunteering. The day after tomorrow this ‘Volunteering and Logistics’ table begins the process of sharing development lines”.

As regards the hotel hospitality to be guaranteed during the Jubilee to Roman citizens who are victims of ‘Civil Protection’ events, such as the explosion or fire of their home, “I would like to arrive within a reasonable time to a agreement with the Metropolitan City“, said the director of the Civil Protection department of Rome Capital, Giuseppe Napolitano, because “it is important to broaden the horizon of our hotel agreements for critical civil protection events. We would like the Roman citizen whose house is burned down to be hosted as close as possible to his own home, but we know that availability is limited. Something happened in the XV Municipality and we had hotel availability in Ostia, not because we wanted to go there but because that was the space available. But in the year of the Jubilee we won’t even have this.” Hence “the idea of ​​broadening public awareness through this convention”, concluded Napolitano.