Illegal housing and illegal buildings in Italy reveal "controversy"

The Sicilian houses of southern Italy, where flooded rivers cover the houses and where nine families have died, are controversial because of illegal constructions.

ANSA, Sept. 5 (Xinhuanet) – A Palestinian village residing in Castellabad, Palestinian Territories east of Palermo,

The house, which was once a villa, had a family who rented it for a family party on weekends. Nine of them were killed in the rain and buried in rivers and mud nearby.

Among the dead, there is a one year old baby and a three year old boy who was the firstborn.

Three adults in total, including an adult and two children, refused to get angry because they had gone out to buy desserts for a while at the time of the accident. The second was saved after about two hours in the woods. I was told.

Giuseppe Gordano, one of the 35-year-old survivors, said: "I lost everything, I only have one girl left, nobody shouted that this place was dangerous. "

He had to leave his family, including his wife, two children, parents, brothers and nephews, and his niece's grandmother.

His 15-year-old son, struggling to save his younger sister, reportedly lost his life.

The judicial authorities opened an investigation into the owners and others, considering that the building, built along fluvial rivers vulnerable to flooding, was built without authorization from the authorities and that the safety rules were also violated because it was only 150 meters from the river.

In Italy, illegal construction is underway to save the cost of materials and labor, to reduce administrative expenses and taxes on licenses and permits, but the government is not afraid of reforms because of strong opposition from illegal building owners and lack of human resources and budget.

Illegal buildings are particularly important in the south, such as Sicily and Campania, where Mafia forces are strong and authorities relaxed.

According to the Statistical Office of Italy (Istat), about 20% of new buildings in Italy are illegal buildings, while the proportion of illegal buildings is 6.7% in the north, 19% in the center and 47% to the south.

To the south, one of the two buildings is illegally built.

Of the approximately 16,500 buildings ordered to be demolished from 2004 to this year, 495 were demolished, representing only 3% of the total.

When a building with a tragic family is revealed as an illegal building, the opposition Democratic Left Party criticizes the fact that the "alliance" of the right-wing party leading to the rehabilitation for the illegal construction should be held for responsible.

However, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, president of the alliance, reacted to the tragedy of dogmatic ecologists who did not want to take measures such as the slaughter of trees or changing the orientation of waterways to reduce risks.

In Italy, on the other hand, during a week, heavy rains accompanied by strong winds swept the country, bringing to 32 the number of deaths.

Veneto, including Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Lazio, still suffer heavy rainfall on the 5th.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conté announced that he would invest 1 billion euros (about 1,200 billion won) in aid to repair the damage caused by the floods.

(Yonhap News)