On the third day of research at Bargi hydroelectric power station (Bologna), in the basin of Suviana, Where Tuesday afternoon è an alternator exploded, the bodies of two of the four missing people involved in testing the works were found. This brings the number of victims to five. At the time of the explosion, three workers died immediately, five others were injured. The search for the missing had actually started again last night at 20pm, when the minimum safety conditions for working had been restored. The situation is still very complicated because the floors involved - floors 8, 9 and 10 - still have more than a meter of water inside them and are full of rubble caused by the explosion as well as pieces of reinforced concrete. We continue non-stop with the work of the divers aided by aquatic drones and water pumps.
Suviana explosion, trade union protest throughout Italy
Today, meanwhile, an 8-hour strike in Bologna proclaimed by CGIL and UIL, with a mobilization throughout Italy for workplace safety and fair taxes with stops for trains, buses and metro in cities. A banner with the writing Now stop! the Bologna procession opens. “These are dead of contract”, says the secretary of the CGIL of Bologna, Michele Bulgarelli.
The military: "Polluted water is the problem for research"
At the Bargi hydroelectric power plant, for the search activities for the missing "the problem is thewater pollution. Mainly the night was dedicated to cleaning up a layer of water that invaded the rooms where the explosion occurred: in particular, the oils and hydrocarbons present on the surface were almost completely removed." The said it lieutenant Duilio Lenzini of the Carabinieri Underwater Center of Genoa. “Today – she underlined – various dive operators will take turns, one couple will go down at a time. The difficulty is the whole environment – he concluded – The reduced visibility and the presence of parts resulting from the collapse linked to the explosion”.
Prosecutor Bologna: “Inspections on subcontracting”
“There are ongoing investigations into the 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. It must not be seen from a prejudicially negative perspective, the gaze towards 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." He said it today chief prosecutor of Bologna Giuseppe Amato, during a press point on the Suviana massacre.
Bologna, Lepore: "Enel and companies collaborate in the investigations"
“The Bologna prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into manslaughter and manslaughter. I ask Enel, the Government and the contracted companies to give full collaboration to the contracted companies, to give full information on the companies that were contracted". The said it mayor of Bologna, Matteo Lepore, from the stage of the event in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. “The Bargi massacre will be one of the most serious workplace massacres in contemporary Italy. We in Bologna know what it means to have massacres and seek justice,” she added.
From Enel Green Power fund of 2 million euros
Enel Green Power, after what happened, established a immediate fund of 2 million euros to "allow the people involved and their families to meet basic needs and emergencies". From the first hours of the incident - says a company note - Enel Green Power "worked to provide assistance by sending a team of psychologists on site and to the hospitals where the injured are hospitalized, by making available hotel rooms and logistical support for the families involved. Enel Green Power will be close in every way to the injured and the families of the victims."
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