In just twenty minutes, water flooded the streets of this village in southern Italy. A man died while walking to his car. For more than a week, the whole country has been plagued by these phenomena of water bombs, as in the region of Brescia, where the equivalent of several months of precipitation fell in a few minutes, causing torrents of mud and landslides.
Between 4 and 7 billion euros in damage
These floods come as the country is barely recovering from the floods that claimed the lives of 15 people in the Emilia-Romagna region, where the damage is still being assessed, which is estimated between 4 and 7 billion euros in damage fields ravaged, roads and bridges destroyed. There is also an emergency: that of pumping water to avoid the risk of an epidemic. Thursday, May 25, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, went to the bedside of Italy, and promised to trigger the solidarity fund of the European Union.
