The funeral ceremony in Genoa for the victims of the bridge fall scene of quiet Reflection. However, many people also Express their anger about the policy. Many look full of scepticism on the state in which you live.
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Italy mourns the victims of Genoa
Saturday morning in Genoa: the shops are closed, many Windows, pictures of a black loop. Labels announce the customers, the employees of the business would meet the Thousands of connect to the Pizzale John Fitzgerald Kennedy – the public mourning ceremony will be held for the victims that died by the collapse of the Ponte Morandi middle of this week.
Silence reigns, as the mourners at the coffins of March past. One of the coffins, draped in scarves, and the shirt of the football club Genoa CFC. Also, Italy’s oldest football club is present, in order to make his respects. Travelled Grieving from Austria and France, where some of the victims. But, overall, a more local atmosphere. The many Genoese flags convey the impression, as there had been a malign conspiracy against the people of the city.
Symbol of mourning: the black ribbon
Round of applause for firefighters, whistles for politicians
As the firefighters and rescue marching forces on the place, by round of applause breaks the silence. Hundreds of them have come from all over the country to help with the cleanup. And still the helpers to dig corpses from the rubble.
As, however, the first politicians to enter the place, come on booing. A man angry that his neighbor Matteo Salvini applauded the Minister of interior and leader of the right-wing populist Lega Nord. Moreover, it comes almost to a dispute. Undivided applause President Sergio Mattarella receives only when he stops on the way to talk to relatives of the dead.
Anger at the government
“No one is surprised,” says the 34-year-old Silvia, who has spent her entire life in Genoa and a huge bouquet of white roses. “The Central government will make the bridge society a scapegoat. And, in turn, will have to find another scapegoat. They are all to blame. We all know how bad the infrastructure in Italy is.”
To the question, why are you not boycotting the funeral, as do the families of 17 Victims, she explains, she was here to help the rescue services and the families. And we support each other.”
Farewell: a scene of the funeral ceremony
For a long time the Italians to look with suspicion on the authorities and institutions of your country. After an endless series of cases of corruption and years of political paralysis, the Italians see on the government bench a little trust in actors that have trusted their citizens with tricky maneuvers to lull. The tragedy of the Ponte Morandi seems to confirm this suspicion once more.”
“Politics in Italy is strong,” says Gianluca, “but not for the people.” In the eyes of the 55-Year-old is the collapse of the bridge, only the last Station of a long series of disappointments, for the politicians responsible.
“The least we can do”
On the other side of the city, in the shadow of the destroyed bridge, it shows that disasters have light pages. Italian scouts of the firefighters and paramedics, food, water, and coffee. This, in turn, have worked through the night to remove the debris and to keep, it is probably still under the rubble of buried people on the look-out.
Debris, landscape clean-up bridge work on the collapsed
“This is the least we can do for our city,” says Stefano, a young boy scout. He had now to fear about the many crumbling bridges that span over Genoa. They are the only way in or out of the Alps and the Mediterranean sea surrounded the city. How many Genovese, he wishes that the city is again famous for its beauty and not for their proximity to death, and criminal negligence.
Not the fault of God, but the people
Like most disasters, the collapse of the Ponte Morandi will meet, probably in Genoa, the poorest residents the hardest. Hundreds have already been forced to leave their homes in the district of Sampierdarena, an industrial area in which many immigrants live in high-rise buildings. Those who have no friends and family, were put up in temporary accommodation. Although the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte has declared, the search for permanent accommodation for the government’s top priority. But no one knows when the people where housed.
A middle-aged man reported that he had been forced to leave his house. “All say, we are like the people in the town of Amatrice, which have been two years ago, the victim of an earthquake,” he says, visibly upset. “But an earthquake is an act of God. This accident here is the inaction of the people rises.”
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