According to the newspaper “Il Corriere della will be”, around 400 mm of rain – the equivalent of six months of precipitation – fell Thursday evening in two hours on the steps.
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At least ten people died in violent bad weather that struck on the night of Thursday, September 15 to Friday, September 16, the marches, region of the Italy center, on the edge of the Adriatic; This puts climate change at the heart of the political debate to a week of the legislative elections.
Four other people were missing after the rain torrents that devastated streets and dwellings. According to the Corriere della will be, around 400 mm of rain fell Thursday evening in two hours on the steps, the equivalent of six months of rush for this region.
Among the four missing people is an 8 -year -old child who was with his mother by car. The latter was saved by the firefighters, but the strength of the current won her child, according to the AGA news agency.
a Ancône, a large port on the Adriatic, several districts found themselves without electricity and telephone. The schools have been closed in the most affected areas. A video of the firefighters shot in Senigallia, a port city of the Marche region, shows the rescuers in deserted streets, with water to the waist, looking for people by rowing on a pneumatic canoe .
Water has also invaded the cellars, and many cars have been swept away by the strength of the current or buried under mudslides. Falls of trees and landslides have cut many local roads, complicating the work of rescuers.
“Dozens of people who had taken refuge on the trees and rooftops of the houses were rescued,” the firefighters announced on Twitter on Friday, reporting a “more than 150 interventions”. The mayors of localities affected by these violent thunderstorms deplored the absence of alert from the competent authorities.
“It’s called” Climate Crimate “, not” bad weather “
The whole political class has expressed its support for the Region of Marches and its population, even if other neighboring regions have also been affected but more slightly, without deploring victims.
Matteo Salvini, leader of the sovereignist league, and Enrico Letta, leader of the Democratic Party (PD, Center left), were thus among the first to express their solidarity, followed by Giorgia Meloni, head of the postfascist party Fratelli Italia (fdi).
The President of the Region, Francesco Acquaroli, member of FDI, announced that he had received solidarity telephone calls from the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the head of government, Mario Draghi.
“I mourn the victims of the tragedy who fell on the steps. Italy and Europe must take climate change seriously,” wrote the European Commissioner for the Economy on Twitter, the Italian Paolo Gentiloni.
“It’s called climate crisis, not bad weather,” reacted on Twitter the Italian branch of Friday for future “, the Movement of Young for the Climate, while the president of the Italian Red Cross, Francesco Rocca, said it was “concerned with the rise in extreme climatic phenomena”.
Like its European neighbors, Italy is affected by climate change. The Pôte du Pô, the largest river in the country, has known its most serious drought this summer in seventy years. And on July 11, 11 people were killed in the collapse of a pan of the Marmolada glacier, in the Italian Alps.