Ischia, the avalanche and the political mud
The ruinous mud of Ischia and its surroundings, seasoned with pain and political exploitation. Damato's Scratches
The photo of that man just rescued from the mud on Ischia, chosen by many newspapers on the front page, can well be considered the most representative of the tragedy that once again struck one of the most beautiful islands in Italy. But also among the most devastated, even before today's mud and past earthquakes, by the unfortunately widespread practice of illegal building. Which has been tolerated by national governments and local governments of all political stripes. It must be said or acknowledged frankly, even if the usual factionalism disguised as passion has led some – and not only the newspaper in a front page headline – to point the finger at the first government of Giuseppe Conte, the yellow-green one. In 2018 it slipped, albeit trying to dampen its scope and effects in words, yet another building amnesty in the intervention decree law on the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa.
Twenty-seven thousand building amnesties in Ischia for 60 thousand inhabitants, as Il Fatto Quotidiano recalled, speak for themselves. Everyone is to be ashamed of, even among those who cry out in pain and scandal only when the water bomb on the mountain above causes the tragedy that is also on duty.
At this point, the satisfaction that the opponents of a Matteo Salvini who are already in difficulty due to the discontent in his movement, which also just emerged from the funeral of Roberto Maroni , can take away, catching him in a verbal foul. I am referring to the cartoon of the Fatto Quotidiano on the front page with that Salvinian and premature announcement of eight deaths in Ischia, against the only one confirmed up to that moment by the rescuers, but in the black hole of eleven missing. It is somewhat jackal – as Libero shouted in a headline – to represent Salvini with his announcement and "on the right, the island of Ischia devastated by a landslide".
I say and write more, despite the cartoon by Stefano Rolli who on the Secolo XIX reminds a rescuer that "this is not the time for controversy" and hears a protester reply: "If anything, I'll go back". I did not at all like the haste with which the Minister of the Interior in office Matteo Piantedosi , despite having been the head of the Cabinet between 2018 and 2019 at the Viminale, practically silenced, or silenced, Salvini for that exit, Which is the least serious or the most understandable and justifiable of those to which from his new position as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Salvini has already accustomed us in just over a month, also dealing with problems extraneous to his considerable competences of government. Here: I wrote it with due frankness, even at the cost of seeming like someone I'm not, that is, an admirer of Salvini regardless of his serious and great electoral imbalances, fruits not only of unfortunate coincidences. "Cynical and good destiny", the late Giuseppe Saragat used to say when his PSDi left the polls unsatisfied.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ischia-la-valanga-e-il-fango-politico/ on Sun, 27 Nov 2022 07:34:25 +0000.