Here comes the first investigated in the investigation for multiple manslaughter e culpable disaster for the collapse of the facade and cornice of the former textile factory that killed Faouza Taoufiq, 38 years old, and her two children aged 5 years and 15 months three days ago. The name of the person who ended up on the Prosecutor’s register, however, is not yet there. To formalize the accusations, the results of the reports of the two engineers appointed as consultants by Busto Arsizio prosecutor Nadia Calcaterra, owner of the investigation file, will be required. Yesterday the magistrate, together with the carabinieri to whom the investigations are entrusted, carried out a second inspection among the rubble of what remains of a reinforced concrete slab over 70 meters long, ruined on the ground together with part of the red bricks of the facade of the building, taking away the life of a mother and her two children. Together with the magistrate, also the two technical consultants. The yellow, today, revolves around the testimony of one of the employees of the activities inside the building in via Marconi, who told investigators that he saw and reported a crack on one side of the external perimeter wall of the structure, a few days before the tragedy . (VALENTINA RIGANO)
Albizzate (Varese), 27 June 2020 – A long story , between industrial successes, abandonment and interventions of restoration. Behind the collapsed facade of theformer Albizzat textile companyand, which took away three lives, much to discover and much to rebuild. An inquiry that will not be easy. Among the large companies that represent industrial history in the province of Varese is the Bellora cotton mill, founded in the 1920s by the Bellora brothers, in Gallarate. A business that immediately expanded, with the opening of new offices in the Gallaratese area, each with a specialization within the supply chain, in 1925 the start of the factory in Albizzate, specialized in weaving, equipped with 400 automatic looms, the complex in via Marconi, where in recent days the tragic collapse of the cornice occurred. For decades, the factory in the heart of the country has employed hundreds of employees, especially women, reaching up to 600 employees.
Bellora, in Gallarate as in Albizzate, was synonymous with safe work, even for many immigrants who came from the South to seek their fortune in the Varese area. But the golden years were over, even the Albizzatese company began to suffer from the crisis, heavy, of the sector, determined above all by competition from emerging countries, quality products were penalized by higher costs, even for the Bellora cotton mill difficult moments which inevitably led to closing in 1985. Silence fell in the large industrial complex, the area and the buildings then passed to a new owner, at the same time the debate was started at the political level as to which destination to give to the buildings, which were in any case preserved, symbol of an important history.
The area of the former Bellora was used for commercial activities within the Regulatory Plan. In the early nineties important redevelopment works were carried out preparing the sheds to accommodate new activities, a new road was also created, in continuation of via Marconi, cutting the complex in half, outlining the current situation, on one side the occupied area from a large supermarket, on the other, the one unfortunately affected by the tragic collapse of the cornice, a restaurant, a laundry, a company. Recently, photovoltaic panels had been installed on the roofs. For the elderly of the town, although the textile business has ceased for decades, the sheds in via Marconi continue to be “the Bellora”. It will be precisely on the works and the changes of hands, between different properties and different project managers and companies in charge, that the attention of the Prosecutor will focus.
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