Will be On Sunday at 9 in the morning the first sponsor of the new pontiff. Before the celebration of the Pontificate Start Mass Leone XIV will travel through the conciliation to Piazza Pia to greet the hundreds of thousands of faithful who came to the capital to participate in the event. With them there will also be the almost one hundred thousand pilgrims of the Jubilee of the Confraternities. A safety test for the capital, also given the presence of approx 200 foreign delegations. Delegations that, at the end of the celebration, will go to Santa Maria Maggiore to pay homage to the tomb of Pope Francis. To ensure the safety of all, the barriers have already been prepared to delimit a perimeter capable of welcoming 250 thousand people. In addition, drones and police forces will preside over the most sensitive points. In total, 6 thousand men and women of the police will be lined up, 300 firefighters, 1,100 of the Civil Protection, 1,040 stewards, 1,100 soldiers, 1,000 Ama men, 1,000 of the local police. Specialized personnel will be present for stocks to the foreign authorities, anti-drone devices, chosen shooters, dog lovers, bomb squads. Already on Saturday the No-Fly Zone took place and the ban on navigation on the stretch of Tiber close to the Vatican. Expected Five prefiltral gates To arrive in St. Peter’s Square and then the passage through check-point equipped with Metal Detector. They will be set up, for those who will not be able to reach San Pietro, Maxiskemi in Piazza Risorgimento and in Piazza Cavour.
Among the delegations are confirmed The presences of the American vice -president JD Vance, of the Royal of Spain, of the leaders of the EU. The provision will take into account the precedence, therefore, in the front row on the right of the churchyard there will be Italy, the United States and Peru, while the places for the other delegations will be assigned in alphabetical order according to the French language which is that of Vatican diplomacy.
In addition, explained the prefect of Rome, Lamberto Giannini, “another dial of great commitment in the next few hours is that of Santa Maria Maggiore”, given the homage that will make to the tomb of Francesco. For this reason measures will be put in place to “guarantee both the normal use of the roads for citizens, and that these visits take place in absolute safety”.
Furthermore A first security test will take place already on Saturday afternoon when the Confraternities will parade in procession in the streets of Rome with very high floats.
