The Ponte dell’Industria in Rome, destroyed by the flames last October, it did not catch fire due to a fire that started from the stoves in the slums. The most accredited track today, according to what I reported on Corriere della Sera, is that of a voluntary gesture by some residents of the area opposed to the camps of the homeless and, perhaps, also moved by phobias towards foreigners who considered the Tiber area under the Iron Bridge their “home”.

For three months, the Carabinieri at the Porta Portese station studied the information collected after the fire, as well as various testimonies, overcoming the track of the homeless, neglecting, in fact, the most accredited. Instead, it emerged from the investigations impatience with the slum which had led, as some exhibits testify, to the exasperation of the residents. Details are still missing: no images of that night are available, except those of some area cameras that may have filmed someone on the run, but other amateur shots are also being sought by passers-by.

Also according to what is reported Republic the trail of the fire involuntarily arising from the makeshift burners of the homeless has now been set aside: the suspicion of the magistrates, coordinated by the adjunct Giovanni Conzo, is precisely that of the fire started to set fire to the shack of the homeless who live on the banks of the Tiber. From there the flames could spread to the bridge.

The investigators, in fact, collected testimonies of traders, residents, passers-by or patrons who that evening were near the Ponte dell’Industria having seen someone flee just before the shack caught fire. For the Roman newspaper, however, it is still necessary to understand the possible motive to go back to those responsible. In addition to the street of resentments of the residents of the area towards the homeless, Repubblica highlights two other options: a feud between the communities of the “invisible” who live on the banks of the Tiber and the movement of a racial nature. In any case, the Roman daily still reports, now the old complaints and complaints of those who could not stand the presence of homeless people under the famous bridge are analyzed, also complaining about the absence of an administration to deal with them.