Bad weather Catania, the mayor: “Schools and shops closed until Friday” – Video

Bad weather in Sicily and storm that hit Catania, schools and shops closed until Friday. “CWith the Civil Protection, the Prefecture and the police we are a team, we are fighting in an absolutely synergistic way within an emergency context such as that of the past few hours”, said the mayor of the city, Salvo Pogliese, on the sidelines of the meeting in the Prefecture on the bad weather emergency in the city. “Tomorrow and Friday – he adds – schools and non-essential commercial activities will be closed at least as regards Catania, then the other mayors will be the ones to make the appropriate assessments”. “In 49 years of life in this city – observes Pogliese – I had never experienced this phenomenon. I have been in the historic center and in some suburban districts and I had never seen similar images of devastation. Emergency phenomena that have determined in the specific case millimeters of rain never recorded “. “The images of the Fish Market – highlights the mayor of Catania – are emblematic: it was not a river in flood, it was a lake that submerged the level of Piazza Duomo”. “I thank the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella – concludes Pogliese – the national parliament and all those who have expressed solidarity with our city from Veneto to Lombardy, from the president of the national Anci Antonio Decaro to the president of Anci Sicilia Leoluca Orlando”.