Politics · Italy · 9 hrs ago
Two people die in abandoned Trieste buildings near €260,000 beer festival
Two young people were found dead in Trieste's abandoned Old Port on November 2.
They had been sleeping in an old warehouse, and carbon monoxide from a fire lit by four other people in the building caused their deaths.
The area is part of the city’s old port, where about 100 to 200 migrants sleep in derelict buildings each night, according to the account.
Just 700 metres away, the city-funded BoraBierFest was being held at a different warehouse.
The city gave the first-time beer festival €260,000, its largest public contribution to an event this year.
The festival has been criticised as a flop, and the opposition has questioned its funding and asked for its financial accounts.
The opposition plans to raise the issue in the city council, where the festival’s spending will face further scrutiny.
Two young people were found dead on 2 November in an abandoned warehouse area in Trieste.
They died from carbon monoxide fumes caused by a fire lit by four other people trying to keep warm.
The deaths occurred about 700 metres from the BoraBierFest, a beer festival that received €260,000 in public funding from the city.
The festival’s funding and its reported poor attendance have prompted criticism and questions from opposition politicians.
The city’s mayor responded to criticism by saying one of the dead people was a Moroccan man who had been ordered to leave Italy.
- Who
- Two young people: a 23-year-old Italian woman, Marilisa Covasso, and a Moroccan man whose name is not stated.
- What
- They died from carbon monoxide fumes in an abandoned warehouse. A fire had been lit by four other occupants trying to keep warm.
- When
- They were found on the morning of 2 November. The year is not stated in the article.
- Where
- In old warehouses in Trieste’s Porto Vecchio area, about 700 metres from the BoraBierFest.
- Why
- Fumes from a fire lit on the floor below caused their deaths.
Trieste centre-left opposition
Trieste mayor Roberto Dipiazza
Funding and event
Trieste centre-left opposition
The opposition called for the festival to be stopped and questioned its public funding and accounts.
Trieste mayor Roberto Dipiazza
Dipiazza defended his response to criticism, noting that the Moroccan man had been ordered to leave Italy but had not left.
City resolution 486 proposed a €260,000 contribution to the Pro Loco Trieste association for the festival.
The two young people were found dead in the old warehouses.
The BoraBierFest was taking place about 700 metres away.
- Deaths
- Two young people
- Discovery
- Morning of 2 November
- Cause
- Carbon monoxide fumes from a fire lit on the floor below
- Festival grant
- €260,000 from the City of Trieste
- Festival budget
- €513,708.56 estimated cost
- Distance
- About 700 metres between the warehouses and the BoraBierFest
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What people are saying
Today I was massacred by the left over the deaths in the old port, then the news comes out that he was a Moroccan expelled months ago from our country and that he had never left. Well done, lefties!!!!!!!!
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