If Silvio Berlusconi takes the G8 leaders to meet those made homeless by April’s earthquake during next week’s summit at L’Aquila, he had better avoid a lady called Gaetana.
“We have a Prime Minister who sells smoke and dreams,” she said when we met at Piazza D’Armi, a former sports field that is now one of the “tent cities” that houses survivors of the earthquake. About 25,000 of the evacuees are under canvas, with the other 35,000 scattered in hotels along the Adriatic coast.
Does she believe his promise that those made homeless will be rehoused by the autumn? “No. All the money is going into the summit venue. What use is that to us?”
This week Mr Berlusconi made his 16th visit to L’Aquila since the earthquake struck on April 6. In earlier tours he took active charge of the relief effort and reassured the victims with jokes and promises of government aid. This time he inaugurated the upgraded L’Aquila airport next to the Finance Police barracks where the leaders of the world’s advanced economies will sleep, eat and debate issues from climate change to the global financial system.
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