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Stories and News No. 187 Time is honest could be the English version of Il tempo è galantuomo . That’s what Giampaolo Giuliani could think now. Do you know him? Giuliani... he’s that catastrophic technician of Gran Sasso National Laboratories who the Knight of Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Guido Bertolaso , before the earthquake of L'Aquila - in a phone call, called an idiot and that also was accused for undue procured alarm. Well, after just over a year, the Great Risks Commission of Italian Civil Protection is accused of failure alarm and investigated for homicide . If I could, today I would rip that Cross from Bertolaso’s chest, to put it on Giuliani’s one, naming him head of Civil Protection. Meanwhile, here's how the guilty meeting could have been… The Story: It’s March 31, 2009. The room is ready for the meeting, as the table too. The bottles of mineral water are all intact and so will remain after the meeting. It will be a formality. There is...

Stories and News No. 109 The Story: Once upon a time there was a group of people. The group of people was paid to take care of emergencies. Emergencies due to disasters, natural or otherwise. Disasters as the earthquakes... Derailments... Landslides... Then the day came when someone (used to do several things at once) thought that the group of people could also deal with ‘big events’. Big events mean big media and people attention. Big media and people attention means big advertising revenues. As for the canonization of Padre Pio ... For the Olympics in Turin... And for the G8 in La Maddalena (then moved to L'Aquila)... Once upon a time there was a group of people. The group of people was paid to deal with disasters and big events. Then came the day when they could no longer see the difference between them... The News: Italian civil protection becomes a joint stock company. Stories and news : “invented” Stories, fruit of my imagination, inspired by “true” media N...

Stories and News No. 107 The Story: Once upon a time there was Italy. In Italy there were two men. One was Guido Bertolaso and the other an ordinary Mario Rossi. Guido had important origin. He was son of the General Director of the Air Force and nephew of Cardinal Camillo Ruini. Mario's father was a bricklayer, an old school one, that may do everything and once he enters to build your house you don’t need to call anyone else. In the early '70s Guido started to study medicine at University. Mario too, although his father discouraged him several times, with these words: "Listen to me, learn my job. How are you going to enter a hospital or to open a studio with no money and important friends?" Yet the son didn’t give up and worked all summer as a waiter to pay for the university subscription. In 1977 Guido graduated with honors. In the same year Mario reached the milestone of graduation. The final vote was not so high, but his real joy was to be able to get that prest...

April 2006 : Ischia, landslide invests homes: 4 dead Guido Bertolaso said: " We pay inertia of decades, years in which we have maltreated the land. We must intervene with the maintenance of the most at risk areas, to avoid future tragedies like this." Three years later: November 2009 : Landslide in Ischia, a 15 years old girl died. A dozen wounded, a child is seriously injured Guido Bertolaso says : "The landslide in Ischia makes me very angry and very sad. It means that all the work done till now has clearly not been enough". Guido Bertolaso is the Director of the Italian Department of Civil Defence. Among its activities there are forecasting and prevention of these tragedies. Sorry, but I do not understand a thing: what should happen for a person in charge resigns? Share the post: