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A homemade bomb was detonated last night near a fish shop in Piazza Galuppi in Canosa di Puglia. The explosion, which damaged the shutter, did not cause any injuries but frightened residents in the area and triggered some alarm systems.
The owner of the business, a 50-year-old originally from Barletta, will be interviewed in the next few hours by the Carabinieri who are investigating the incident. There are no video surveillance systems in the area. At the moment no hypothesis on the origin of the gesture is excluded. The commercial establishment has already been affected in the past; last March, in fact, a small paper bomb was exploded near the shutter.
Savino Montaruli, president of Unibat, commented on the episode: “The state of abandonment of the squares and historic centers is a very serious deficit that can all be traced back to the bad politics that governs our cities. What happened in Canosa is nothing other than the representation and superposition of a climate of widespread crime that involves the cities of this territory: from Canosa to Trani passing through Andria and Barletta. I invite the new prefect Silvana D’Agostino to convene with the utmost urgency the meeting of the Observatory on economic-social tensions which, by now, has not met in Canosa since Wednesday 8 February 2023. On the occasion of the meeting it would be appropriate for the prefect to also come to report on how the anti-racket desk is working”.
