MESSINA (ITALPRESS) – “We are following exactly what the Civil Protection Code requires us to do. In the meantime we must proceed, now that a relative calm has returned, to the count of damages. This is a task of the Municipalities who will have to relate to the respective Regions, I naturally speak of Sicily, Calabria and Sardinia. And the Region formalizes the request of the state of emergency, besides being able to declare the state of regional emergency, we call it so, there is a special law that previews it. We will meet the Council of Ministers next week. After a brief statement by the Department, I will propose and report to the Council of Ministers the request for the declaration of the state of national emergency, which is also accompanied by the deliberation of a first resource that allows local authorities to be able to operate for the first interventions, then remove debris, obstacles, the restoration of the pathability, the functionality of the essential services”. Thus the Minister for Civil Protection and the Policies of the Sea, Nello Musumeci, in Santa Teresa Riva, in Messina, the first stage of the inspection that is carrying out after the Mediterranean cyclone Harry that has fallen on Sicily, Calabria and Sardinia.
“If infrastructure damage is related damage, local authorities can operate directly – he explains. If it is a real reconstruction, then it will be necessary to close the emergency phase and open the state of reconstruction as required by law 40 on the Code of Reconstruction. So it’s still early to make a serious quantification of damage. We consider that it is not only the Riviera of eastern Sicily, the eastern coast, to have been hit. There are and there are damages also in the hinterland, in the internal areas, landslides, 200 people evacuated in Catanese, so it is necessary to be prudent for now. It’s not a problem and it won’t be a resource problem. The mayors will be able to operate by way of derogation from the order of urgency, this can already be done yesterday. Everything else will be evaluated. In the next few hours we will meet in Rome with the leaders of the various departments to make the point and agree with the presidents of Region as the most celery procedure, that which can allow a restoration of environments that, of course I know very well from Sicilian, are environments on which rests a good part of the summer economy of our territories. So first it restores and the better it is. But the interlocutor in this main phase remains the Region, the Government of the Region, although the National Department, the National Government, as we have shown in other cases, is always present in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity to support the bodies that will need to be accompanied in a procedure that can only be concealed, but also transparent for obvious reasons that I do not need to underline.”.
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