Monday, April 6, 2009 at 3:32 am, an earthquake of unprecedented violence that devastated the city of L'Aquila and dozens of villages in the southern foothills of the Italian Gran Sasso, killed 300 people, has hurt 1,500 and over 65,000 made it necessary to resort to makeshift shelters. The Earthquake Aquila, which since December 13 was preceded by hundreds of minor shock, caused the most extensive and thorough destruction of a major after that of the ancient city dating back to the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
These are the terms in which the news should have done successfully around the world, so that the tragedy could find an appropriate representation as well as the basis for an adequate compensation for his material. Things, however, turned out differently and the terrific blow on April 6th to Mother Earth has become almost nothing compared to later disasters caused by ineptitude, incompetence, cynicism and greed of rulers, public, media and directors of the more unscrupulous profiteering.
The first disaster, under the guise of a silly subtlety, comes from a devastating disruption of the reality. "Earthquake Abruzzo" was made to believe, instead of "Earthquake Eagle": a stream of short-sighted and irresponsible disinformation that by targeting benefits to be drawn by a future administration to rain patronage of reconstruction funds, has minimized the extent of damage from L'atrocious and had severely damaged the thousands of entrepreneurs and workers in that industry that tourism is the backbone of the entire economy of Abruzzo.
widespread destruction and many victims in the villages and municipalities around L'Aquila: the lives lost and suffering past and future are irreparable, but houses, stables, factories and workshops can be redone. That suffered from the center of the Eagle, however, is an irreparable wound mortal. L'Aquila, as it has not collapsed on April 6 on the ground continues to ruin the effect of the strong shock that every day people still go after the other, what is not reduced to rubble is damaged and torn with no hope of recovery, all the institutional, economic , cultural and simple daily life have become extinct. No one can live and work there, where every wall that stands threatens to wilt at any moment, embodying the funereal silence of immobility, which sealed the suffocating stench emanating from the rotting food buried under those were restaurants, bars, pubs, pizzerias, pastry shops, bakeries, butchers, fishmongers, grocery stores, wineries, Salsamenteria, cafes and homes.
Three hundred acres of the old city, one of the finest and most vividly experienced the historic centers of Europe, made of special pieces (such as the fortified city walls, churches, palaces, towers and fountains) and a lush collection architectures of smaller medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and neoclassical, this is now a huge cemetery, deserted, silent, dusty, rendered inaccessible by the supervisor ensures that the Army carefully every 24 hours at 24 access road. There
only one precedent in the history of Italy of the need to seal an entire city. Had not happened in Messina in 1908, much less after the recent disasters of Friuli, Irpinia, the Marches and Umbria. Instead, L'Aquila happens by April 6.
I talked with many officers incomparable body of the Fire Brigade from different parts of Italy all say they have ever been in the midst of a disaster as horrific, or in Friuli, nor in Umbria, or elsewhere.
up calling "Abruzzo", is not only prepared the ground for upcoming maneuvers patronage but we wanted to minimize the extent the "Earthquake of the Eagle" and soften the severity: an earthquake distributed over a large area gives rise to fewer concerns and facilitates the State to charity rather than justice. But it was not enough. The information on the collection of seismographs were handled immediately credited to a magnitude less than effective. The website of the Geological Survey of the United States government, anyone can read that the earthquake of 6 April is estimated at 3.6 degrees on the Richter Scale and that the source of information is the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. The latter, however, on its website indicates the magnitude at 5.8. And so the cynical
architectural works against Aquila and the Abruzzo against others because of an earthquake capable of less than 6 is considered below the level of considerable gravity, and therefore would help the Treasury to evade the duty to fully finance the reconstruction of public buildings such as private funding, the instead it is done on time for the Friuli and Umbria.
To reinforce this cynical action was taken as macaroni cheese on the opportunity to go through all the beggars' Aquila, labeling them as builders of a "city of paper." Good excuses are those offered by the collapse of the student's home and the San Salvatore, which has run in the buildings actually deployed to the great art of criminal entrepreneurs, technicians and testers. However, despite numerous other cases of delinquent substance not unlike, the generalization is unacceptable, as is the claim that all Sicilians are mafiosi. In reality, there is nothing dishonest in most of the thousands of buildings built over nearly eight centuries Aquila. In reality, the earthquake of April 6, which has acted with unprecedented violence, although this truth is hidden and denied that any such can happily Pontius Pilate washing his hands in abandoning L'Aquila and Aquila to their fate of death. Cases
-effect symbol state of things should have been those that have been carefully obscured: the English Fort and Hotel Duca degli Abruzzi. The fortress was a machine architecture of rare perfection, massive like a mountain that had stood for half a millennium free of any potential aggression, human and natural, including the earthquake from which the city was destroyed in 1703. The hotel was built on top of all suspicion of robbery: in the seventies did not commissioned by third parties but which in its long-term investment by a dynasty of builders inviolate international reputation. Horribly shattered the first, second gutted like a chicken. It was necessary to document and document, you must ask questions and seek answers in the face of these cases can be explained only un'inusitata seismic violence.
Instead, it was much more convenient to pay by reassuring folklore and induce tears of the poor dead buried under the rubble and the dignified suffering of the survivors. Very comfortable: sorry for the dead, preaching solidarity, invoke courage, hope for rebirth, promise everything and more, spreading hugs and kisses and then calmly proceed to the next party at the embassy in Chissadove.
After the disaster of 1703, the leaders of the City Hall stood up in front of the barracks destroyed and there they continued to work among and for the citizens, rejected without ifs and buts the claim of the central government (who then lived in Naples) to transfer cabin and puppets in a "new town" and immediately begin the reconstruction of fine architects and master masons calling from Rome and Naples to restore their own skin and do scratch, without upsetting the old urban structure, all that he could not stand.
Today, now a month since that tragic night, all is silent. 35,000 people survive in tent cities without the slightest idea where they will land next to the cold winter looming Aquila. 30,000 people cultivate the illusion of an eternal vacation in hotels of the coast that are going to put them at the door. Everywhere, food and clothing provided tirelessly and with great width spreading the everlasting charm of an affectionate and government officials.
There are so many school buildings perfectly accessible, but children are forced alienating solitude offered by camps and hotels. Giant complexes completely safe, as the School of the Guardia di Finanza, the School Reiss Romoli, the Red Barracks, the barracks Pasquali, etc.. May grant the university and hospital that are the only certainty for the future and instead are broken up and diverted to the cities from which never will return.
The government gives birth to the decree-law No. 39, which tells an incomprehensible tale of aid, benefits, benefits, exemptions and so on, granted you do not know who funded it is not known what can be acquired is not known how. The only certainty: the four really made money in the field will be squeezed by the state budgets dropped to a trickle, from here until 2032 and will be operated by banks and imaginary spa gravitating around the Treasury. In short, the quake will be forced to borrow to rebuild homes and, when unable to pay loans, lose their properties. Meanwhile, the city will become a new tourist attraction: the spot of the TV will say "Visit the largest city in the world died."
They forced the Fire Department in a spectacular rescue of four cans of brass passed off as "Treasure of the Cathedral", but no one lifted a finger to pull out of the rubble of hundreds of thousands of books and documents in the Provincial Library and Archives of State assured the memory, identity and civic dignity of the city that no longer exists.
Fosse was the "Earthquake of the Eagle", the TV and sent rained down from everywhere in the early days of the earthquake would have impressed the whole world and probably would have made those huge flow aid necessary to rebuild a city such as L'Aquila. In the near future, perhaps a bit 'of churches and palaces will be restored: solitary, they stand out like ghosts through the ruins of a city that no longer exists.
Errico Centofanti
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