Latina, 18 May 2024 – Vast operation by the State Police on the national territory to combat the illicit disposal of waste, to ascertain and sanction the multiple forms of illegality in the delicate sector of environmental protection.
The complex activities, coordinated at a central level by the SCO, were conducted by agents of the Flying Squads and SISCOs in 33 Italian provinces with the specialist support of the regional agencies for environmental protection and the traffic police. In some provinces, given the operational specificity in which it operated, the peripheral structures of the National Port Authority Corps were also involved.
At the end of 3 days of intense operational activities, over 168 areas suspected of being used for the illicit storage and conservation of waste were subjected to control, 40 of which were subjected to seizure. More than 1763 subjects were identified, 103 people were reported in a state of freedom for crimes related to illicit waste management, 2 people arrested in flagrante delicto and over 85 administrative violations detected for an amount exceeding 200 thousand euros.
The investigation and verification activities resulting from access to the controlled sites will continue in the next few days by the individual regional environmental protection agencies, in order to assess the existence of further administrative and criminal offences.
More specifically, the following operational results were achieved in this province:
The checks, carried out at a provincial level with the technical contribution of the Provincial Section of Latina of the ARPA Lazio and the help of the Traffic Police Section of Latina and crews of the Lazio Crime Prevention Department, concerned a waste treatment and disposal company, two lands and an abandoned industrial site.
As regards the waste treatment and disposal company, ARPA Lazio, due to some discrepancies found between the state of the premises and what is prescribed by the authorization to carry out the activity and between a load of waste and the related FIR, has started an investigation in order to evaluate whether or not to proceed with the imposition of any sanctions.
With regard to the two lands, it was ascertained that the relative state of the places, where non-hazardous special waste deriving from building demolition and fiber cement slabs had been piled up, had already been the subject of in-depth analysis by the competent bodies.
Inside the former industrial site, however, the presence of large quantities of solid urban waste, fiber cement sheets, construction waste, household appliances, electronic devices of various kinds, tyres, furniture and combusted waste was ascertained. Based on what was found, therefore, the Flying Squad sent to the local Public Prosecutor’s Office a crime report against unknown persons for abandonment and illicit burning of waste and violation of the seals, arranging for a new affixing by placing chains on the gates and the positioning of concrete New Jersey at the access gates.
The activity is part of the constant prevention and monitoring action conducted by the State Police, in a sector that for decades has represented a source of huge, illicit profit also for criminal organizations, in order to put a stop to the expansion of so-called environmental crimes which damage the territory and constantly put the health of citizens at risk.
For the record, and for the protection of those under investigation, we would like to remind you that an accusation is not equivalent to a conviction, that the evidence is gathered in court and that the Italian judicial system still provides for three levels of judgement.
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