Never-ending controversies surrounding the Bridge over the Strait of Messina.
During the question time in the Chamber in which the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini announced that the report on the Bridge had been delivered to Parliament, the leader of Avs, Angelo Bonelli, attacked by stating that for the Bridge project "it was not no seismic tests were carried out, nor those for the wind" and the "Eurolink Consortium replies that they were not carried out so as not to waste time".
The reply, however, comes from the Strait of Messina Society, which sent the parliamentarian to read the conclusions that gave the project the OK.
The deputy refers to page 47 of the technical-scientific report of the specific committee called to evaluate the project.
"Do you want to build this work in the most seismic area of Italy without carrying out these tests? You are unscrupulous", urges Bonelli.
At this point, according to the rules of question time, the minister could not reply to the questioning deputy.
However, answering the next question, Salvini returns to the topic of the bridge to try to reply to Bonelli.
"For anyone to assume that the government is building a bridge destined to collapse is simply crazy," he says, before being stopped by the vice president of the Chamber, Fabio Rampelli, who was presiding over the session.
"You can't answer, minister. It's not a regulation, you have to stick to the questioner's answer", Rampelli reminded him.
In the background the shouts from the opposition benches.
"Respect the rules, no more rallies."
Today "there is a nervous wide field", Salvini relaunches.
Bonelli was answered a few hours later by the CEO of the Stretto di Messina company, Pietro Ciucci.
"Hearing the Honorable Bonelli from me is technically surprising because he cites pages of a document, which we have made available, but he does not cite the fundamental page which is page 45 in which the Scientific Committee unanimously expresses a positive opinion on the project, i.e. on the designer's report, which is the update of the project envisaged by Legislative Decree 35".
Then the CEO explains that the Committee then expresses "some recommendations and insights to be made in the preparation phase of the executive project, as required by law".
In particular, "the geo-seismic tectonic framework of the Strait area will be updated, during the executive project, with the studies and research carried out over the last 20 years".
The company explains that the seismogenic potential of the Strait area "is not capable of producing earthquakes of a magnitude higher than the design one considered for the bridge (7.1 Richter scale)".
As for the wind tests, Ciucci specifies that "we have done a number of them in 10 different wind tunnels around the world and we will do more".
Overall, the company further explained, "wind tunnel tests were carried out on 11 bridge models" for the executive project.
The designer used 5 different laboratories, among the "most important and specialized" in the world, in Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany.
And as part of the independent Check, the Project manager consultant from Stretto di Messina carried out "tests in 3 wind tunnels" in Milan and Canada, precisely to "guarantee the certainty" of the results.
The analytical and experimental checks carried out "demonstrate the stability of the bridge up to wind speeds of over 275 km/h", underlines the Strait of Messina.
This is a speed that "can be expected in the Strait on average once in 2000 years";
the maximum speed recorded in "over twenty years of monitoring was 128 km/h", the company notes.
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