G7 here are the cabins of the Goddess of the Night 02 hotel ship
G7 in Brindisi, the Police Union denounces the terrible conditions of the ship hosting the police and many other organizational problems
There are now only a few days left until G7 which will be held in Borgo Egnazia in Savelletri (Puglia) and according to estimates, almost 20 thousand attendees are expected between delegations from the founding countries and those invited as well as law enforcement, service personnel, etc. The Italian Unitary Police Workers Union (Siulp) however denounces a “disarming logistical organization and mortification of the aggregate staff”. Below is the full statement:
“This afternoon we received dozens of reports sent by colleagues aggregated in Brindisi to be employed in the device that will preside over public order and security for the summit of heads of state and government scheduled for the next few days.
We would have expected that, following the example of the unfortunate approximations reported on the occasion of much smaller events, particular attention would have been paid to arranging the accommodation of the staff.
And instead we have to complain about yet another demonstration of an embarrassing and unprepared logistical capacity. The merciless images of videos taken inside and outside the ship which, we were assured, would meet standards of decorum and dignity, yield gruesome scenes of water leaks from the air conditioning system and bathroom fixtures, rooms in shameful conditions with material coming out of the air conditioner splits and depositing on the bed sheets, as well as faulty air conditioners in the central cabins, therefore without the possibility of external ventilation, with a infernal microclimate. The most sore point, even if we ignore the absence of safes for storing personal weapons, concerns the innumerable quantity of clogged and non-functioning bathrooms. In addition to the structural limitations of the ship, which it is really difficult to understand how it was possible to evaluate it as suitable, there are also those of a reception service which would have been inadequate even for hotels with a few dozen rooms, and just to make things even more more complicated with staff who speak exclusively in English.
Hundreds of colleagues thus had to wait for at least a couple of hours on the pier – was it that difficult to stagger the arrivals? – with dozens of hours of travel behind us, without anyone having felt the need to set up a minimum of wellness area for a necessary refreshment from the accumulated fatigue. Much less explain to them what was happening. Even late in the evening, entire departments are waiting to be able to check in. And, the icing on the cake, again due to the owner’s shortage of staff, entering and exiting the ship, for badge checks and movement registration, takes at least an hour.
Those who were lucky enough to be able to arrive at the food distribution – and still in the late evening there were very few of them – after yet another exhausting wait, discovered that no trays were available, and were forced to make do with the dishes they could keep. in hand.
From the first reports we immediately took action at the top of the PS Department, which in turn interfaced with the Brindisi Police Headquarters. In the frenetic discussions that followed, we demanded immediate measures, including, if necessary, to move colleagues who were assigned unusable cabins to decent accommodation facilities. As we write, we continue to exert every form of pressure to restore as much as possible the disconcerting drift into which the unfortunates who thought they had seen it all, but had to take note of how reality can surpass even the wildest imagination, are forced.
This is not the time to go looking for responsibilities, as the priority is to press the Administration to prevent the already mortifying conditions imposed on colleagues from worsening, and given the premises there would be nothing surprising. But there will certainly be a context in which we will ask for an account and reason for the unprecedented inconveniences caused by unacceptable negligence.
We thank those who allowed us to have a real-time picture of the events, and we trust that, after the scathing protests initiated by the top managers of the PS Department, there will be a correction in the management line”.
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