• Ponte Morandi, down pillars 10 and 11: the structure is no longer there
  • Ponte Morandi, at 9:38 am shot down the east side, the images
  • The implosion of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa seen from different angles
  • Ponte Morandi, the explosion observed from different places in Genoa

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June 29, 2019

"We will fight to the end to give justice to the families destroyed by the tragedy of the Ponte Morandi", the vice premier Luigi Di Maio reaffirms on Facebook. That returns to press the Atlantia highway group on the revocation of the Autostrade per l'Italia concession: "If you get paid and make a profit to manage a State infrastructure and don't do it, there are consequences. Which in this case are called revocation of the concession. Italy is our country, we do not let ourselves be dictated by the multinationals ". "Now trade unions and large industrial organizations are shouting at the scandal. They did not shout at the scandal after the Ponte Morandi tragedy and none of them shouted in scandal even after yesterday, when the explosives expert admitted that already in 2003 Autostrade asked him to demolish the bridge, but then nothing was done about it because of the costs.

The 2003 project of demolition with explosives of the Ponte Morandi was "a simple feasibility study" for "the replacement of the same with a bridge with doubled capacity". Only "options" then "discussed starting from 2008 in public debate". Autostrade per l'Italia responds to Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and underlines: "Every hypothesis that this feasibility study was related to any problems of the Ponte Morandi, as well as that the final choice was made on the basis of economic cost considerations, is therefore totally imaginative and specious ".

The day after the demolition of the Morandi bridge stacks, work continues for the reconstruction of the viaduct. The operations for the landing of the first nine pieces of the new deck on the quay made available by Ansaldo Energia thanks to the collaboration with Accelor Mittal took place this morning in Genoa. The first decks arrived in recent days from the Fincantieri plant in Castellamare di Stabia. The arrival of all the pieces of the new viaduct will end in September with 60 exceptional transports. Today, by means of special trolleys, the artifacts were transferred from a barge to the Polcevera quay. On Monday they will reach the construction site of the new bridge.

Watch the video of the explosion An imposing security plan, with more than 3,500 displaced persons, more than 400 men of the police forces deployed, the block of roads that cut in two not only Liguria but also part of the North West. The city was ready for the d-day: not only Genoa but also a large part of Italy kept its eyes focused on the two batteries of the former Morandi viaduct which under the explosive thrust of a ton of dynamite and a few kilograms of plastic, they crumbled to the ground a few steps from the Polcevera. The explosion seen from different shots The powders, monitored step by step by the control units arranged by the Municipality of Genoa and those placed on the balconies by residents of the area surrounding the explosion, have settled on the ground mixed with hundreds of liters of water ' shoot from the cannoncini. To assist the implosion controlled the two vice premierers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio and the defense minister Elisabetta Trenta that with the media of half the world have been placed at a safe distance, well beyond the range of 300 meters from the operations. Salvini: reconstruction in good hands The Interior Minister and vice president of the Council, Matteo Salvini, in Genoa said "today is an extraordinary day, a unique case in the world of demolition engineering and reconstruction between houses, in a center "Inhabited. It is a day in which to thank engineers, technicians, workers, law enforcement because it was a unique operation in the world. As far as those who rebuild are concerned, we are in good hands and I repeat: I do not comment on the statements on listed companies ".