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17 aprile 2009 - 12:13

Reports in the Italian press claimed that some of the buildings that proved most vulnerable in the quake, including one block of flats in which 29 people died, were constructed of cement in which sea sand was used in place of regular sand: doubling the contractor's profits, but making the steel reinforcing rods in the concrete columns fatally vulnerable to corrosion by the salt in the sand.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italys-requiem-for-earthquake-victims-1667295.html
http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_aprile_08/indagine_pm_disastro_colposo_8fd7d84e-23ff-11de-a75a-00144f02aabc.shtml
http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2009/04/13/miroir-mon-beau-miroir-par-philippe-ridet_1180078_0.html
http://italiadallestero.info/archives/4496
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Yt0n8kPlo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.voglioscendere.ilcannocchiale.it%2F&feature=player_embedded
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6058369.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKreD3gjqY
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impregilo
http://www.terrelibere.it/impregilo.htm