Italy: Significant increase in anti-aircraft shelter orders

There has been a significant increase in orders for anti-aircraft shelters in recent weeks in Italy. According to the press, the cost of these shelters ranges from 45 to 90 thousand euros.

“Orders these days totally exceed those of the last two decades,” the owner of Minus Energie, which is considered the largest in the sector in the country, told La Repubblica.

“Concerns about the possible consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are palpable – despite the fact that there is no immediate threat – and the orders do not come only from very affluent families,” said Julio Cavicoli, the company’s founder.

They are traders, small and medium business owners, freelancers, he explains. In reality, however, Italian law does not provide for the possibility of setting up anti-aircraft shelters, and the only way to obtain the required permit is to consider them simply underground. “An elderly shepherd from Sardinia also showed interest,” Cavicioli told Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper.

At the same time, the Rome newspaper Il Messaggero writes that since the Second World War, there are at least twelve anti-aircraft shelters in the Italian capital. The most famous are located in the central square of Piazza Venezia and in the remote area of ​​Eur, the construction of which was started by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

In Milan, finally, there are more than a hundred shelters, many of which served to protect the inhabitants during the First World War.

Source: Capital

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