“We asked for the intervention of the police, who arrived quickly (coast guard, finance police, carabinieri), interrupting the party and identifying the participants. The situation was a carpet of cigarette butts, plastic cups, plastic and glass bottles and wood piled up to make a bonfire”. This was reiterated by the general director of the Italian League for the Protection of Birds, Danilo Selvaggi, following the controversy sparked by the illegal party last Saturday on the islet of Isola delle Femmine, the nature reserve oriented on the Palermo coast managed by Lipu, an off-limits area where rare species of birds nest.
TWO BROTHERS, BOTH DOCTORS, ARE THE ORGANIZERS
The organizers, two twin brothers, both doctors, have specified that it was not a party for their birthday but the creation of a video clip on the islet and that they had the authorization of the owner of the islet, the Marchioness Paola Pilo Bacci. The person who put on the music, the investigators later ascertained, was a former member of the Coast Guard now retired. “Some of the participants had a sign that said ‘Save the Planet’ – adds the LIPU manager -. It may also be that in this initiative there was, at least in some, a small part, of good faith, but we can no longer allow, in the twenty-first century, in the heart of the environmental crisis, that a protected area is invaded in full nesting phase when even our guided tours are suspended”.
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