Ten years since the night of August 24, 2016, when at 3:36 a.m. the first shock opened a seismic sequence that for months shook Central Italy. The earthquake, with an epicenter between Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto, struck dozens of municipalities across Lazio, Marche, Umbria, and Abruzzo: 299 dead, 365 injured, over 40,000 displaced. Amatrice has become its symbol.
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Mattarella’s visit: “Rehabilitation as soon as possible”
On the anniversary day, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella remembered the victims and called the State to its responsibilities: Rehabilitation is a process, not without complexities, that requires commitment to be completed as soon as possible and is a call to collective responsibility to restore the normality that was broken in the territories affected by this tragedy.
The Head of State expressed closeness to the families of the victims and the injured, defining that chapter as a “dramatic page in the history of the Republic” and a warning to strengthen seismic prevention mechanisms. He also recalled the role of volunteers who came from all over Italy, whose intervention together with the first aid authorities “also brought a signal of hope and restart with which a reconstruction process began.”
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Prime Minister Meloni expected
On the government front, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni entrusted a message to social media in the morning: “We will never forget the night of August 24, 2016. Today we pay tribute to the memory of the 299 victims of the earthquake and once again stand with their loved ones.”
Meloni – who will participate for the first time today in the commemorative ceremony in Amatrice – claimed the government’s work on reconstruction, speaking of a “decisive change of pace” after “too many delays and false starts,” evidenced – she said – by the contributions already paid for private reconstruction and the resumption of investments for public reconstruction, “which for too long remained blocked.”
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