A Carabinieri union reported that several soldiers were forced to intervene at the flood sites to keep onlookers away. According to Sim Carabinieri, people were arriving on the banks of the swollen rivers who wanted to get closer just to take a selfie.
By now everyone has understood the game. THE natural disasters they are one of the moments when it is easier to capitalize on a little attention on social networks. We saw it with Hurricane Milton, with creators who purposely went to the most dangerous areas to get half an extra like. And now we are seeing it with the floods that hit (again) theEmilia-Romagnaso much so that the police had to organize services dedicated precisely to removing disaster tourists.
He explains it in a note Sim Carabinierione of the internal unions of the Carabinieri. The words are of Antonio Serpigeneral secretary: “It is unacceptable that our colleagues in Emilia Romagna are forced to divert their intervention to remove people who, stupidly, this morning reached the banks of streams at risk of flooding to take a selfie”.
According to the union, interventions of this type would have been recorded in Castelnuovo di Sottoprovince of Reggio Emilia. A 20-year-old boy also died in this wave of floods. His name was Simone Farinelli and died while stuck in the car, overwhelmed by the flood. In some areas this is the second flood in a monthas the residents of Pianoro told Fanpage.it.
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The only reservation we place on the information given by Sim Carabinieri it is on the destination of the images. THE curious about tragedies they have always been there, so much so that in the car it is not difficult to get stuck in queues that arise just to be able to see for a few moments road accidents in the next lane. Maybe those weren’t the photos taken by onlookers intended for no platform. Maybe not.
What is more certain is that There has been a line of creators for a long time who are willing to risk a lot to shoot some content. We saw this in the early stages of the pandemic COVID-19when the YouTuber Social Boom, aka Francesco Belardi, pretended to enter the red zone of Codogno.
We saw it with Hurricane Milton, when streamer Mike Smalls Jr threw himself into the streets of Tampa, Florida, protected only by an umbrella and an inflatable mattress. He broadcast for an hour on the Kick streaming platform. Peak viewership: 60,000 at the same time.
