People die in Venice while Mose misses

Catastrophic high water in the Venice lagoon. With a tide expected at 187 centimeters, but fortunately waiting in decline from the latest bulletins, there is no private defense to take. What better way to put the system of mobile gates called Mose into operation? Unfortunately the city of the doges will have to get by without the 5.5 billion euros investment dams.According to the Espresso, the magistrate for the waters gave a negative opinion to the hypothesis of activating the anti-tide defenses which, in theory, can already be activated in the four port mouths of Malamocco, Lido, Chioggia and Treporti.

A day with winds from the north at 100 km / h could put a strain on a system that has already shown very serious operating defects, some of which reported by the Espresso
                                                                      in an investigation
                                                                      which sparked the wrath of Mantovani, a Chiarotto family company at the head of the Venezia Nuova Consortium.

The mobile dams for the defense of the lagoon city increasingly resemble a wreckage: the Espresso anticipates the survey commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructures. The document reveals the danger of structural failures due to corrosion and the use of steel different from those of the tests

The list of accidents along the way is already very long. Only a few days ago, the newspaper La nuova Venezia announced that for too many vibrations the dams of the Malamocco mouth would not be raised. In Treporti there are sand problems in the mechanisms and in Chioggia the plants must be managed manually.

The Venezia Nuova Consortium, struck by investigations by the judiciary and the police station, announced that the works will be ready in 2021. But the uncertainties, and the damage that time and salt have caused to the parts submerged for years, make us doubt that the appointment will be respected all the more as the estimated figures for annual infrastructure maintenance (20 million paid by the public investor) appear grossly underestimated with respect to engineering needs.

In the meantime Venice suffers the damage and the mockery of a state bankruptcy intervention system, conceived during the First Republic and put at the service of corruption and bribery. And winter hasn't even begun.