Chisinau City Hall will buy flats for victims of explosion from Rascani sector
10 million lei will be allocated by the municipality for the victims of the explosion from Rascani sector. The initiative belongs to Ruslan Codreanu, the interim of the Capital. At the same time, within a briefing, the interim proposed to buy flats that will belong to the City Hall, instead of social homes.
"I want to tell you what we did yesterday and what we will do today. Yesterday night, we evacuated the dead bodies of two persons who were under rubble. We couldn't intervene earlier, because there was the danger to face the brokenness of the walls.
At the same time, the residents of the neighboring stairs came back to their flats yesterday. The resident of the stair where the explosion took place entered in the flats to take all their necessary things.
Also, this night, only eight persons have been hosted by the orphanage near the railway station.
Yesterday, the Râşcani school factory was opened and food packages were prepared. It took a little longer because the cooks had to be brought out of the suburbs. I was there and I saw how the food was prepared. 100 packages were prepared for both rescuers, policemen and people who suffered.
As we say eight people are in the Center, there are about 20 free rooms to cover the accommodation that the rest of the people.
During the morning and all morning, everyone was fed with hot food, tea, coffee. On this occasion, I want to thank first of all the volunteers who have been involved, the economic agents that have been involved, including the economic agents that provided us with food, yesterday. Besides what we prepared as a combination.
What follows today, around 10:00, is to be preceded by evidence by law enforcement agencies: prosecutors and criminals, and colleagues from the State Construction Inspection to make laboratory work. After that, the technical expertise of the building will be carried out to see how far the staircase of the building is damaged and to see if people can walk through certain floors to their apartments.
Until we have the expertise of how varied the building is, the entrance to the building is shut down for everyone. Because there is still danger and we want to make sure no one will suffer.
Both during today and tomorrow, the city hall will provide with food and accommodation all the people who will address and will need it. Yesterday, we sent through the chairmen of the association of tenants to the block because there are many rooms where people can be accommodated.
I thought there would be more people who would need accommodation, but as I said there were five people yesterday and three came yesterday evening. We still have space, free places.
I made sure that we informed each of the tenants that we had space. The rooms are repaired, it's hot, they have water and food. All the conditions are provided.
Today, we will discuss two topics at the hearing. One of the subjects is the 10 million lei allocated for the purchase of social housing. I came with the initiative not to buy social housing, but maneuvering houses. So, let's have room for maneuver to be able to intervene in such situations. We are talking about 10 million and the procedure of acquiring apartments. This is one of the projects I have proposed and was discussed today with colleagues in the municipal council.
The second draft decision is to complete the reserve fund of the Minucipal Council and to allocate 10 million lei for the intervention in the respective situation. So we have 13 million lei on the foreign debt today. With 13 million lei, we asked the Council to support the completion of the reserve fund, of which 10 million will go to the situation in Moscow's avenue.
I want to point out that we will only enter the building when the technical expertise will allow us to assess the status of each apartment. Today, we do not know exactly how many apartments need repair or maintenance work on windows, doors. We know that the lifts are broken, they will be repaired later. We know that 6 apartments are destroyed, but probably more will need repair", said interim mayor of Chisinau, Ruslan Codreanu.
PUBLIKA.MD reminds that an explosion took place in a 21 floors building from Rascani sector of the Capital. The explosion was at the 16th floor and destroyed the flats from the 13th to the 18th floor. Yesterday, Pavel Filip announced that the families of the three dead will receive allowances worth 50 thousand lei. Also, Vlad Plahotniuc's foundation, Edelweiss will offer 40.000 lei to the persons who suffered after the explosion.