Niscemi: building collapses on the ridge. New ordinance for initial intervention
A risk analysis and surveillance system will be implemented. The mayor: 'Nature is not to blame'
After the wave of bad weather that swept Sicily, causing a landslide in the territory of the municipality of Niscemi, an ordinance signed by the Head of the Civil Protection Department Fabio Ciciliano defines the first urgent interventions, while the damage from the bad weather continues.
Niscemi, three-storey building collapses
Meanwhile, the landslide continues to cause collapses in the area. On 31 January, a three-storey building in the Sante Croci neighbourhood collapsed, one of those balanced on the Niscemi ridge. The collapsed building was only a few metres from the symbolic image of the car on the precipice.
What the ordinance provides for
Firstly, a hydrogeological risk analysis will be carried out in the territory of the municipality of Niscemi, together with a programme of geognostic, geotechnical and instrumental monitoring surveys to ascertain the causes of hydrogeological instability. A surveillance system will also be set up.
At Niscemi Plenary Conference of the Presidents of the Regional Councils
"Few regions in Italy have really understood what has happened in Sicily and that is why I wanted to invite the presidents of the regional councils to Niscemi. We will talk about the evacuees, the farmers, the fishermen, the bathers, all the entrepreneurs, the needs of the citizens as well as the infrastructures to be restored and the extraordinary measures to be taken". Thus the President of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, Gaetano Galvagno. The Conference of the Presidents of the Legislative Assemblies of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces will meet in plenary session on 12 February, according to what was decided in Rome during a meeting between the president of the Ars Gaetano Galvagno and Antonello Aurigemma, president of the Lazio Regional Council and of the Conference of Legislative Assemblies. "It will not be a meeting of form but of substance. In addition to representing all our dutiful closeness, we want to provide every support necessary to Sicily in this dramatic moment," said President Aurigemma, accepting Galvagno's invitation.
Mayor Niscemi: 'Blame not nature, funds for 1997 received after 28 years'
The blame for this disaster 'certainly does not lie with nature. Man bears some responsibility here because something could have been done'. With these words the mayor of Niscemi Massimiliano Conti, in an interview with the Corriere della Sera, drew attention to the responsibility for what happened.
