Rome, 10 July (LaPresse) – “The environmental disaster which, fifty years ago, originated on the outskirts of Meda and devastated the community of Seveso, also affecting those of Cesano Maderno and Desio, was one of the most dramatic events our country has ever faced and, even today, its polluting effects mean it is regarded as one of the most serious incidents on a global scale.” So said the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaking at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the disaster at the Icmesa plant in Seveso. “An entire town, an entire area of the industrious Brianza region, came to a standstill. The whole region, the whole of Italy, was in shock,” added the Head of State. “As we have heard from the Mayor, Mrs Giuliana Zorzi, from Giuseppe Cassina and from the moving account, none of the eyewitnesses will ever be able to forget the trauma, the suffering, the anguish caused by the toxic cloud and, subsequently, the evacuation that had to be organised. Just as no one will ever be able to erase from the collective memory the alarm and the fears that spread across such a vast area at that time.”
Seveso, Mattarella: ‘One of the most dramatic and serious environmental disasters in the world’
Rome, 10 July (LaPresse) – “The environmental disaster which, fifty years ago, originated on the outskirts of Meda and devastated the community of Seveso, also affecting those of Cesano Maderno and Desio, was one of the most dramatic events our country has ever faced and, even today, its polluting effects mean it is regarded as one of the most serious incidents on a global scale.” So said the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaking at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the disaster at the Icmesa plant in Seveso. “An entire town, an entire area of the industrious Brianza region, came to a standstill. The whole region, the whole of Italy, was in shock,” added the Head of State. “As we have heard from the Mayor, Mrs Giuliana Zorzi, from Giuseppe Cassina and from the moving account, none of the eyewitnesses will ever be able to forget the trauma, the suffering, the anguish caused by the toxic cloud and, subsequently, the evacuation that had to be organised. Just as no one will ever be able to erase from the collective memory the alarm and the fears that spread across such a vast area at that time.”
