Death of Andrea Moretti, a 22-year-old worker who fell from the Colosseum during work

Who was Andrea Moretti

Moretti was originally from the Tottea hamlet of the municipality of Crognaleto, province of Teramo. He was a specialized rock rock worker, a highly sought-after qualification that is difficult to find on construction sites, and worked for the company of one of his relatives (Carmine Moretti), Quintilio Moretti srl, based in Tottea. He had followed in his father's footsteps, a long-time worker forced to leave his job about thirty years ago due to an injury that left him disabled. The mayor of Crognaleto, Orlando Persia, a personal friend of the victim, remembers a "sunny boy, a lover of life, of his land, linked to friendships and horses, his passion".

The hypothesis of human error or illness

The recordings from the cameras inside the Colosseum have ended up being examined by the investigators. When Moretti fell, his colleagues were on the other side of the walls: they did not witness the fall, but heard a very loud thud. Then they alerted the emergency services. It cannot be ruled out that the accident may have been caused by human error or illness.

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Meloni: "It is unacceptable to die in the workplace"

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, in expressing her condolences to Moretti's family, hopes that "full light will be shed, in the shortest possible time, on what happened". And he adds: "Dying at 22 is unacceptable, even more so if this happens in the workplace."

Gualtieri: "Pain for all of Rome"

The mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri speaks of Moretti's death as "a pain for all of Rome". Addressing a "hug" to his family, his loved ones and his colleagues, he says he is aware "that no words can fill such a heartbreaking loss".

Minister Giuli: “Shocked and stunned”

The Ministry of Culture and the Colosseum Archaeological Park also stand alongside Andrea Moretti's family. "A tragic event that leaves us dismayed and stunned. The few words we manage to express are dedicated to Andrea, his family, his loved ones: we extend our deep, painful condolences to everyone in the face of the absurd death of a young man engaged in his work", declared Minister Giuli.

World Tourism Day celebrations at the Colosseum postponed

As a sign of participation in the mourning for Moretti, the Ministry of Tourism has postponed, to a later date, the celebrations for the UN World Tourism Day scheduled for Sunday 27 September at the Temple of Venus in the Colosseum.

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Usb strike index of the workers of the Colosseum Archaeological Park

The USB public employment and private work has announced a strike, from 7pm today to 4pm tomorrow, of public workers, employees of the Ministry of Culture, on duty at the Colosseum archaeological park, and employees of the company Ales Spa, an in-house company of the Mic. "We cannot continue like this. This is the result of procurement. For some time now we have been denouncing critical conditions for Park workers and excessive workloads for Ales employees", said Domenico Blasi, national coordinator of USB public employment.

CGIL: "It's a shame not to close the entire Colosseum"

"The Archaeological Park of the Colosseum has ordered the closure of the second tier where the worker died. The Colosseum does not stop even in the face of death. A shame. We expect Minister Giuli to clarify what happened and to order the total closure of the Colosseum. Humanity comes before tourists", writes the general secretary of the CGIL of Rome and Lazio, Natale Di Cola, on Facebook.

Landini: "It's unbearable that people continue to die at work"

"To think that a 22-year-old boy should die on a construction site, among other things while working in a public construction site, I believe indicates the gravity and unbearability of the situation we have reached. And once again we are talking about a worker who worked in a contracting company, among other things in a public sector", said the general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini, on the sidelines of the event celebrating the union's 120th anniversary. "It is no coincidence - he adds - that we are collecting signatures to change the laws on the procurement system, because this system of doing business is a system that kills. And every time you pretend to cry over a dead person, but then don't change those stupid laws that allow people to be exploited like this, to the point of taking into account that they can even die, it is a political responsibility that can no longer be kept quiet".

Uil: "Rome cannot stain monuments with workers' blood. Establish the crime of murder at work"

"After the collapse of the Torre dei Conti last year, which also caused the death of a worker on that occasion, today we mourn another victim in the construction sector in an archaeological site. Rome, like the rest of the country, cannot stain its monuments with the blood of workers. We await clarifications from Minister Giuli". This is the message from the confederal secretary of Uil, Ivana Veronese, and the national secretary of FenealUil, Stefano Costa. The union calls for "more controls on construction sites and therefore more inspectors; the establishment of a national training register; a system for assigning works that goes beyond the principle of maximum discount; a crackdown on the liberalization of cascade subcontracting". And he adds that "it is no longer possible to postpone the creation of a special prosecutor's office that has the skills to deal with accident cases and establish the crime of homicide at work".

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