“We can't imagine spending the winter in a tent: you don't even have to put tent cities on it. This is the goal, we will see how to do it in the next few days”. The premier said, Matteo Renzi, during a technical meeting which was also attended by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Graziano Delrio, and the mayor of Camerino, Gianluca Pasqui.
The Prime Minister then said that the houses damaged by the earthquake that hit the Marches will be rebuilt "soon and well". Reconstruction in the earthquake-hit areas requires "structural intervention" and this need must be "explained well to Italy, to Europe, to everyone", warned Renzi: "As we are doing in Amatrice, we must not let the spotlight go out on these places and the attention of politics falls”.
The head of government then asked “Parliament to do as fast as possible for the approval of the earthquake decree, respecting their respective roles”, said the premier, reiterating “the proximity to the territory and to the people affected. Italy does not leave its citizens alone. The earthquake puts us to the test but we are stronger and we will make it”.
On the economic front, yesterday the Council of Ministers made a budget the first 40 million for immediate intervention. The European Commission has confirmed that the expenses to deal with the earthquake emergency will be considered out of deficit. "According to EU rules - the spokeswoman for the EU executive, Annika Breidthardt told the Agi agency -, the costs for the short-term emergency in response to major natural disasters can be considered exceptional and therefore excluded from the calculation of structural efforts of a State during the assessment of compliance with the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact".
Meanwhile, there were about 100 tremors earthquake of magnitude not less than 2 recorded from midnight between Marche and Umbria. According to the surveys of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv), eleven of these were of magnitude between 3 and 3.5: the strongest at 4:13 with its epicenter in Fiordimonte and 10 km from Ussica (Macerata); one of magnitude 3.4 at 5 in the same area. At the moment there are no new collapses.
They are over 4.000 displaced people in the fifteen municipalities affected by the earthquake that hit the Marche region, but the checks are continuing. Another 2.000 cots are on the way, while another request for a thousand beds to be distributed in the affected areas has been sent. This data emerged from the Regional Operations Center meeting.
“The situation is dramatic, just miraculously there were no deaths and serious injuries, but the damage is very large”, said the councilor for civil protection Angelo Sciapietti. "We are evaluating the transfer of displaced people to the coast”, said the head of civil protection, Fabrizio Curcio, from Pieve Torina, a few kilometers from Visso.
