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Irpinia earthquake: Mattarella, worst catastrophe in the Republic

2020-11-23T17:29:55.748Z


"Forty years have passed since the immense tragedy caused by the earthquake that devastated Irpinia and Basilicata, also affecting part of Puglia. (ANSA)


(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 23 - "Forty years have passed since the terrible tragedy caused by the earthquake that devastated Irpinia and Basilicata, also affecting part of Puglia.


   Nearly three thousand people died under the rubble of their houses, or as a result of the destruction of buildings.

Many lives could not be saved due to difficulties and delays in emergencies.

The number of homeless people was counted in the hundreds of thousands: suffering, despair, sacrifices that have continued for years in the path of reconstruction.

In the recurrence of the most catastrophic event in republican history, I would first like to remember the victims, and with them the inextinguishable pain of their families, to whom I express my sentiments of closeness.

The sense of community that then allowed us to react, to face the dramatic emergency, and therefore to rebuild villages, towns, inhabited centers, and with them the communication networks, production activities, services, schools, belongs to our civil memory.

The wound was profound to the populations and territories.

The will and the strength to restart are immense. "This was stated in a statement by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.


    "The Republic - he adds - was shaken by that earthquake which hit internal and partly isolated areas of our country but the whole country knew how to unite and, as happened in other difficult moments, common commitment became the strongest lever to overcome obstacles. trasserolezione democratic institutions by the fragility emerged: after the November 23 1980nacque the Italian civil Protection, became the tempostruttura valuable in a country so exposed to evanto seismic risk for professionalism and organizational skills. Today cittàallora affected, and countries then destroyed, acquired life.


   L he reconstruction work - continues Mattarella - has mobilized energy, in a path that is not without problems and contradictions, with settlements that have become part of an economic and social network of significant importance for the South and the entire country "(ANSA).


Source: ansa

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