Messina 1908 – 2008 Shaken Lives

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Messina, Italy. 1908 - 2008, One hundred years after the earthquake. Santo Iannelli next a politic poster supporting his election for Fondo Fucile district counsillor. He lives in Fondo Fucile district. People in Fondo Fucile live in ruined shacks. The shacks have cracks everywhere, produced by the trains passing underground. They have no sanitation and when it rains the streets become rivers. They live among rats, beetles and any sort of insect. Almost all the roofs in Fondo Fucile are made of asbestos sheets and among ihabitants and neighborhood, many people suffer from chronic respiratory diseases. Mainly children.

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