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Italy is still trapped in a wave of bad weather. In Tuscany, the flood of the river Arno now threatens the city of Florence. Flooded by the floods for a week, Venice has again experienced an unusually high tide this Sunday. For a few hours, three quarters of the city was flooded. Reportage.
With our special correspondent in Venice, Anne Tréca
Facing a canal, the medieval Santa Maria des Carmini church was once again flooded for the third time this week. The parish priest became a construction supervisor and piloted some thirty volunteers who had arrived with brushes and brooms. Some are neither parish nor believers. But everyone goes there.
" I give you two carts. There are forty bags of sand, I will show you where to put them in the church. It's a little wet. We will do Mass a little later to allow the elderly to arrive. We have fallen behind, but I do not want to miss it, also because it is a moment of rebirth for the people after what happened. "
The marble floor of this medieval church is still immersed under salt water. The sacristy is impracticable, it would float a boat.
In front of the faithful, Don Andrea puts on a cassock over his boots and mass begins for those who have lost their job, their house, for the flood victims families, and all those who help Venice to recover from the disaster.
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