REGGIO CALABRIA – I soldiers of the forestry carabinieri group of Reggio Calabria they executed five precautionary measuresof which one of house arrest and four of obligation to report to the judicial police, issued by the judge for preliminary investigations of the court of Reggio Calabria against the same number subjects of Italian and Romanian nationality.
The investigative activity made it possible to acquire a serious circumstantial picture, shared by the investigating judge in the aforementioned restrictive order. The crimes contested are those of criminal association aimed at the illicit management of waste, to their illicit combustion, and organized illicit trafficking of waste.
The vehicles were also subjected to seizure aimed at confiscation(trucks) used by the associates for waste handling. The investigation is the result of a complex and detailed investigative activity initiated by the Carabinieri Forestry Unit of Reggio Calabria through which the existence of a stable criminal association dedicated to the illicit management of waste was brought to light, highlighting its criminally relevant conduct.
Today’s result arose following a roadside inspection of a vehicle loaded with special waste and without the required environmental authorisations. The investigative action conducted with traditional methods and supported by technical activity led to the ascertainment of several connected criminal conducts. in particular, the subjects affected by the measure illegally disposed of large quantities of waste of various types (wooden, ferrous, construction, plastic, sheathing and, even more seriously, asbestos sheets) on agricultural land located on the outskirts of the city, belonging to unaware subjects.
Subjects, through transport, they delivered the waste to the landfill created illegally to then proceed with their combustion, thus setting up an organized and efficient system of alarming severity, capable of exposing the health of an indeterminate number of people to danger, as well as creating serious damage and disfigurement to the environmental matrices.
