via imc-ie, 3 March 2010: “A taped conversation between building contractors has fuelled the anger of acquilani already disenchanted with the progress of reconstruction… Last Sunday, the patience of many of the L’Aquila earthquake victims ran out. An estimated 6,000 of them joined in a “wheelbarrow protest” in the old centre of L’Aquila, the Abruzzo town hit by a devastating earthquake last April which killed 307 people and left more than 40,000 homeless. Focus of the protest was the 4½ million tonnes of rubble which, 11 months later, still choke the eerily empty town centre…” more