Franco Gabrielli Naufragi E Nuovi Approdi
"From the disaster of the concordia ship to the future of civil protection"
Ten years after the sinking of concord, the history of that emergency and a reflection on the civil protection system.
A clear and necessary reflection on a topic that is more relevant than ever today, that of the management of emergencies in our country and the role of Civil Protection, which brings attention back to a scenario destined, despite the policy of good intentions, to repeat itself in always the same and not attentive to the interest of the community.
On 13 January 2012, the Costa Concordia was shipwrecked off the island of Giglio, causing 32 victims and causing an emergency situation that was completely new in the history of our country and beyond. Coordinating the complex rescue and recovery operations of the wreck was Franco Gabrielli, at the time head of the Civil Protection department, appointed commissioner delegated by the government for the occasion. Now Gabrielli tells what happened in those thirty months: from the first weeks, when the race against time to look for the missing went in parallel with the safety of the ship, to the difficulties and concerns related to environmental risk, to the extremely risky maneuver of the parbuckling and the subsequent refloating of the Concordia up to the landing in the port of Genoa.
An operation not without risks, solved thanks to the excellent teamwork of hundreds of operators, between the public and private sectors, competent, conscientious and ready to get involved; but the Concordia story is not only an example of extraordinary resourcefulness and engineering genius, it is also a story of frictions and contradictions, painstakingly reached agreements, delicate political balances, bureaucratic obstacles, lack of funds: these are the fruits of an often shortsighted vision of public affairs that highlights the limits and paroxysms of a system in which taking responsibility is no longer a civil act, but a gamble.
"The history of civil protection will continue to be studded with tragedies which will be followed by the necessary tiring restarts. The hope is that every shipwreck will be followed by the strength to react, taking advantage of the mistakes made and the defeats suffered".
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