A second mysterious fire last night affected the area of the former Al Karama reception center on Strada Monfalcone, which for months had been subjected to work to dispose of the old unhealthy housing while the new settlement was being completed next door. After a first fire, which broke out in the afternoon among the brushwood of the surrounding land, which had touched the old settlement used for years as a nomad camp, in the late evening the flames affected the area again, directly involving the last structures left standing after the first reclamation activities, i.e. abandoned containers and caravans. An epilogue that fuels suspicions about the nature of the double fire: with the Fire Brigade taking care of the extinguishing operations, the Carabinieri of the Latina Company intervened and investigated the incident, first of all practicing the hypothesis that it was treated of a malicious event, a targeted gesture. Although it is difficult to identify a motive that could justify such an action.
First of all, the firefighting specialists take into consideration the possibility that the fire last night was caused by a fire that remained lit from the afternoon fire, which continued to smolder and regained strength a few hours later, given that the areas crossed by fire in the two episodes are contiguous. However, this seems like a remote possibility because during the night the flames violently directly affected the area close to the old reception center which had constituted the expansion of the nomad camp with prefabricated accommodation. In short, the Fire Brigade did not find any useful traces to clarify the investigators’ doubts, but it seems clear that the second fire on Friday was started directly between containers and caravans. Furthermore, the circumstance that this was the last part to be reclaimed was singular, compared to the actual former center which had already been dismantled and reclaimed in recent months. Now the Carabinieri are investigating to understand who may have had the interest in carrying out a similar gesture and why.
The former Al Karama center between Borgo Montello and Bainsizza had been unused since July two years ago, when a vast brush fire that broke out in the fields behind had affected some of the old huts, so much so that it required the eviction of the entire nomad camp so that the The original structures were built with highly polluting materials and for this reason the area had been declared unusable. Therefore, with the support of the Lazio Region which financed the reclamation activity, the old structures were demolished, while work began on completing the new field on the adjacent land, which had been stopped for ten years after the construction of the base on which they are now standing. installation phase of the prefabricated houses.
