Preliminary investigations into
Friday's structural collapse at a building site in Florence that
left four construction workers dead and a fifth person missing
suggest that several criticalities came into play, public
prosecutor Filippo Spiezia said on Monday.
It is "premature to make statements" concerning the
circumstances of the collapse at the Esselunga supermarket
construction site in Via Mariti construction site, Spiezia told
reporters in the Tuscan regional capital.
However, "the very empirical fact that we gleaned from an
initial inspection is that there were several critical issues,"
he added.
"We ascertained these the moment we went to the construction
site," continued Spiezia, without giving any further details.
The public prosecutor also confirmed media reports that some of
the foreign victims may have been irregular migrants.
"Initial checks have shown irregularities concerning the
presence of some of the (foreign) workers on the national
territory," he said.
However, Spiezia added that possible irregularities concerning
contractual arrangements are "a different matter" and the
subject of subsequent investigations.
Of the four workers confirmed dead, two were Moroccan, one was
Tunisian and one Italian.
Only the Italian victim was easily identifiable while the others
are being identified with the support of forensic scientists.
The fifth worker missing feared dead is also Moroccan.
Three Romanian workers were also injured in the collapse but
their condition is not life threatening.
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