• Turin. Fire destroyed at the Cavallerizza in Turin, part of the roof collapsed
  • Cavallerizza Reale in Turin: tame the flames. Photos of the fire and damage

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08 November 2019It is a foreigner with a Moroccan passport the man who was stopped yesterday in Genoa, with strong indications of guilt for the fire that broke out on 21 October in the Granai area at the Cavallerizza in Turin. The man was identified during an inspection in the city of the Lantern. The day after the fire he was heard by the police as he was attentive to an investigation related to theft of electricity in the area of ​​the Cavallerizza.

During the interrogation, the homeless man had admitted to sleeping occasionally in the abandoned building, but not having done so in the hours prior to the fire. A version however denied by the cameras installed by the police, which always investigates the Cavallerizza for drug dealing activities. From the videos emerges as the man on the night of the fire, enters the Cavallerizza through a door, known as Tempietto, and pours a liquid trying to set a fire. He can't, and tries again a couple of hours later, when he is seen to go away precipitately.

Quaestor: "Right track right away"
"From the first moment we have identified the right track. The climate of suspicion that emerged immediately after the fire of October 21st, removed the true dimension of the problem: Cavallerizza is a stable UNESCO heritage, which is degraded and abandoned to itself. And it could have been destroyed by a quarrel between the homeless. " Thus the Turin quaestor, Giuseppe De Matteis, during a press conference following the arrest of a foreigner for the burning of a part of the Cavallerizza Reale in Turin. "The fire brigade did not understand the origin of the fire, whether it was intentional or not, we only succeeded thanks to the investigation activity," he adds. Now the magistrate of Genoa, where the man was arrested, will assess the detention and then transmit the documents to the Turin prosecutor, the investigator. The crime that will be challenged is that of slaughter.

The protocol to "redevelop the area" should be signed on Monday. But not without controversy
After the numerous controversies following the new pyre at the Cavallerizza (the first was in 2014), UNESCO heritage, the mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino said that next Monday, November 11th, the protocol will be signed "to start the requalification of the historian compendium and, at the same time, guarantee a continuity to the artistic and cultural experience already started ". The first citizen of Pentastellato says he is amazed by the statements of the occupants who speak of a proposal by the municipality "not complete", without "guarantees on the future" of the asset and with "indefinite" redevelopment times. Appendino defines these declarations "inconsistent with the path taken to date to put the structures of Cavallerizza Reale in a safe place".