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In a week, the toll of bad weather amounts to thirty dead, from north to south of Italy. The bodies of the nine family members, including children aged 1, 3 and 15, were found in Casteldaccia, a coastal town east of Palermo, firefighters said. The other six victims are between 32 and 65 years old.
The house where these Palermitans spent the weekend was submerged by water and mud after the overflow of a small river, Milicia, after the heavy rains fell on Saturday.
Three other people from the same family, who had gone out before, survived. "I've collapsed," the Italian agency Agi told a survivor who has hung on a tree for more than two hours.
The 35-year-old Giuseppe Giordano lost his wife, two of his children, his parents, his brother, his sister, his nephew and his nephew's grandmother. On the other hand, her 12-year-old daughter, who was released on time with her uncle, was spared.
Illegal constructions
"I have seen a total disaster," said Sicilian prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio, after flying over the area of Casteldaccia on Sunday with the head of government Giuseppe Conte. An investigation was initiated to determine whether houses near the river were built in accordance with the law (at least 150 meters from a river).
According to the mayor of Casteldaccia the house rented by the decimated family is in a non-constructible area and was to be demolished, like many other nearby buildings. The adjoining town council pointed out two illegal settlements, including their waste water in the river.
A 44-year-old service station manager also died late Saturday night in the Palermo area of Vicari, trying to pick up a stuck employee with his car.
A man of Sicilian origin and his German wife, both living in Frankfurt, Germany, also died in a car carried by a flooding torrent, further south, in the region of Agrigento, according to firefighters.
Rescuers are still looking for a 40-year-old doctor who was going to work at Corleone Hospital and had to abandon his car overnight on a road due to inclement weather.
Uprooted trees in the Northeast
The natural heritage of the north-east of the country (Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli) was also particularly affected this week, with hundreds of thousands of trees uprooted by winds and landslides, now floating for some on lakes and rivers.
In Veneto, forests on the slopes of the Dolomite mountains look like lying matches, on aerial images shot by firefighters.
The weather has struck "100,000 hectares of pine trees" in Veneto, said Sunday the governor of this province, Luca Zaia, speaking of an "apocalyptic scene".
"We need 40 billion euros to secure the entire national territory," said Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who sent Sunday a new spike to the EU in front of the press.
"I pledge to collect and spend, with the hope that do not arrive letters of protest from Brussels because we spend too much," said the president of the League (far right) who intends to activate with Brussels extraordinary help for natural disasters.
Italian civil protection has called this wave of bad weather "one of the most complex weather situations of the last 60 years". Venice had thus suffered last Monday one of the worst climbs of the waters of its recent history.
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