The Suviana massacre: the fourth victim identified. Prosecutor Bologna, investigations into subcontracts

2024-04-11T10:42:05.854Z

Highlights: 15 thousand people take part in the demonstration in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. CGIL: 'Procurement deaths' Uil: 'We had reported problems' The CEI: 'Security is not a luxury' Pichetto: 'In Italy more victims at work than in Europe' The body of one of the four missing in the Suviana massacre has been identified by fire brigade divers. The victim, the fourth identified, has not yet been extracted. A file has been opened on subcontracts at the Bargi hydroelectric power station. A minute of noise for the victims was held in the city centre. The mayor of BologNA and metropolitan, Matteo Lepore, said: 'Enough is enough' 'It's a civil war at work, intervene. Bombers, it's a Civil War at work', said Cisl union leader Landini. 'We feel unsafe', said Enel employee. 'It is not an unnecessary cost, it is a duty'

A file opened. 100 firefighters were involved in the search for the others missing in the Bargi hydroelectric power station. CGIL: 'Procurement deaths'. Uil: 'We had reported problems'. The CEI: 'Security is not a luxury'. Pichetto: 'In Italy more victims at work than in Europe' (ANSA)

Key points

12.26 pm Bologna, checks on subcontracts
12.15 Cgil-Uil, there are 15 thousand of us in the square in Bologna
12:00 Fourth victim identified
11.50 Zuppi, safety at work is not a luxury but a duty
11.44 Enel employees, 'we feel unsafe'
11.30 Landini, faced with the dead, Cisl has decided not to strike
11.20am In Bologna a minute of noise for the victims
11.07 Bombers, it's a civil war at work, intervene. We had reported problems on the Bargi power station
10.50 Lepore, 'Enel and the government make information available'
10.48 Pichetto, more deaths at work in Italy than in Europe
10.08 'Enough is enough', 1500 of us march in Bologna
10.28 Lepore, the history of Bologna is full of massacres
09:41 General strike and march in Bologna
09.28 Cgil Bologna, these are dead from the tender
09:11 100 firefighters engaged in rescue operations
08.44 Night of search for the missing without success

12.26pm

Prosecutor Bologna, investigations into subcontracts

"There are investigations underway on contracts and subcontracts, we have given a delegation for this. It is not that subcontracting in itself is a problem, it is a legal figure provided for by the civil code which is traditionally used to have specific personalities. must be seen from a prejudicially negative perspective, the focus on skills must not be ideological. Here we will evaluate the conditions of the companies and whether everything has been done from a regulatory, prevention and accident prevention point of view". Bologna's chief prosecutor Giuseppe Amato said this during a press point on the Suviana massacre.

12.15pm

CGIL-UIL, there are 15 thousand of us in the square in Bologna

For the CGIL and UIL unions, 15 thousand people are taking part in the demonstration in Piazza Maggiore to say enough to the deaths at work, after the massacre at the Bargi power plant on Lake Suviana. "If we are 15 thousand it is because Bologna has a big heart and when needed it knows how to take to the streets", underlined the mayor of Bologna and metropolitan, Matteo Lepore, from the stage.

12:00 pm

Fourth victim identified

The body of one of the four missing in the Suviana massacre has been identified by fire brigade divers. The victim, the fourth identified, has not yet been extracted.

11.50am

Zuppi, safety at work is not a luxury but a duty

"Safety is not a cost, it is not a luxury but it is a duty, an inalienable right for every person". The president of the CEI, Cardinal Archbishop Matteo Zuppi, said this in his speech in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna at the CGIL and UIL demonstration, to protest against deaths at work after the Bargi power plant massacre. "Security requires investments - he continues - when security is seen as an unnecessary cost, it means that we are irresponsible".

11.44am

Enel employees, 'we feel unsafe'

"We and our colleagues who worked in the contracting companies feel unsafe." Thus Gianmarco Cimatti, of Enel Distribuzione Forlì, at the CGIL and UIL demonstration underway in Bologna called after the Suviana power station massacre. "Unfortunately, here is the concept of almost all service companies, subsidiaries, of the logic of procurement", attacks Cimatti. In the procession that passed along Via Indipendenza there was a section of Enel workers, mostly from Enel Energia and Enel Distribuzione. "The company continually outsources both clerical and operational activities to cut costs - notes Giuseppe from Enel Energia - As long as it concerns employees the errors can be remedied, when services are outsourced things are different". Claudio Giuliani, from Enel Distribuzione, wears a black ribbon to his ear: "For all the workers who get hurt and lose their lives", he says. "How many are we? Much fewer than ten years ago." He remembers the Suviana power plant: "I was there when they hired me. That power plant was a flagship of Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, it was customary to send new hires from these two regions there for a tour. First at Brasimone, then to the Bargi power station". That of the massacre.

11:30

Landini, faced with the dead, Cisl has decided not to strike

"In Italy, work has been devalued too much and laws introduced in recent years are favoring a model of doing business based on exploitation. On contracts, subcontracts and profit at all costs. A model that damages workers, who die and get injured, but it also damages the country. Enough must be said." The secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini said this from Brescia, present at the demonstration called for the general strike. "The CISL absent? Ask those who decided not to strike in front of the dead. We want to unite" explained Landini.

11.20am

In Bologna a minute of noise for the victims

The demonstration in Bologna by CGIL and UIL against deaths at work arrived in Piazza Maggiore. A few thousand people gathered on Crescentone. With them also a delegation from the Fiom of Florence. The interventions, introduced by the secretary of the CGIL of Bologna Michele Bulgarelli, were opened by "a minute of noise" to remember the victims of the Suviana massacre.

11:07

Bombers, it's civil war at work, intervene. We had reported problems on the Bargi power station

"These tragedies continue to happen every day, this strike that we had proclaimed on security issues demonstrates the need to intervene to stop this civil war, there is a massacre that this country must take note of, immediate measures are needed that are largely to stop this massacre." The leader of Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, said this on the sidelines of an assembly for today's strike, speaking about the serious accident in Suviana and underlining the need to intervene on subcontracts. "What needs to be done to have the rules for public subcontracts in private subcontracts? How many more deaths do we still have to see?".

"We reported two years ago that there were safety problems in that facility." This was said by the number one of Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri on the sidelines of the meeting with transport workers in Rome on the occasion of the strike proclaimed with the CGIL, speaking of the Bargi hydroelectric power plant in the Suviana basin in which a serious accident occurred on Tuesday . "We are ready to hand over the documentation and testimonies we have to the judiciary," he said. According to Bombardieri, the provision on workplace safety in Parliament "does not comply with the requests we have made. Is it normal for the government to invest only two million euros in the face of all these deaths? The credit license does not solve the problems. It only applies to mobile construction sites. Companies that violate safety rules must not work, there can be no political winks."

10.50am

Lepore, 'Enel and the government make information available'

"I make an appeal to Enel, the government and the contracting companies: immediately make available all the information they have, collaborate with the justice system, as they say they want to do, but demonstrate it immediately because our metropolitan territory has already been hurt too much and tormented in the history of this country. So we need the national institutions and Enel to immediately demonstrate their desire to collaborate and shed full light on what happened." The mayor of Bologna, Matteo Lepore, said this at the demonstration called by CGIL and UIL after the Suviana power station massacre. "I believe it is right to answer the unions' questions. The unions are asking specific questions on reports that have been made, on procurement problems, I understand that in these hours they are still searching for the missing, I also understand that there are many colleagues from Enel, and my embrace truly goes to them, because we know that many colleagues of the people who have died, injured or missing live here in the area, so we know very well that these are difficult times for the company and for the entire large Enel community, However, I believe that those who have the highest responsibilities must at this moment demonstrate that they are available to do what is possible and even more so to immediately have the truth about what happened", concluded Lepore.

10.48am

Pichetto, in Italy more deaths at work than in Europe

On the Suviana tragedy "it will be necessary to really clarify what happened, also regarding safety at work. Beyond the specific case, on which there will be an investigation and on which I cannot express any opinion, we certainly have an opinion express the fact that compared to many European countries, particularly those in the North, Italy has a much higher rate of accidents at work and deaths. This is an element that we must take into consideration." The Minister of the Environment, Gilberto Pichetto, said this at a Corriere della Sera webinar.