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Rinaldo Frignani and Rome editorial team
Around 5.30pm on Wednesday 31 December, the Carabinieri and 118 personnel intervened in Malafede to rescue a man seriously injured by the explosion of a rudimentary explosive device purchased illegally.
Seizures e anti-barrel ordinancesigned on New Year’s Eve by the Campidoglio, seem to have had a first, tragic epilogue: around 5.30pm on 31 December in Bad faith, near Rome118 intervened to rescue a man seriously injured in the hand by the explosion of a firecracker. The 63-year-old, rescued in via Cortemaggiore 19, died despite the immediate intervention of doctors. The police are on site.
The report to 118 arrived after the firecracker went off. The man, Ion Botnarian, of spring originewas handling the firecracker in sight of midnight when it exploded in his hand. The “bang”, a rudimentary device according to initial information, purchased in clandestine shops (the victim’s son was found in possession of a battery of fireworks), it suddenly exploded, hitting the man in the chest and hands, causing ahemorrhage. The man, who was alone at the time of the explosion, died in the street.
The kidnappings in Frosinone
Also on Wednesday afternoon, a clandestine laboratory for production and packaging of illegal fireworks, set up inside a private home, where an entire family lived, it was discovered by the Financiers of the Provincial Command of Frosinone. More than 1,000 have been seized 7,500 pyrotechnic articles of various categories and artisanal manufacturing, produced and packaged rudimentarily, as well as chemical products and gunpowder to be used for the preparation of pyric material.
Viterbo, sale to minors
In the run-up to the end-of-year holidays, extraordinary checks will also be carried out Viterbese. The financiers of the provincial command of Viterbo have 3,245 pyrotechnic articles were seized as they were held in quantities more than double the permitted amount. All the articles in question, belonging to the F2-F4 and P1 categories, had a net explosive content of almost three quintals and a gross weight of approximately three tons.
Their detention, in such a high quantity and in an unsuitable and unauthorized place for such quantities, constituted a serious and potential danger to public safety. Among other things, the operator was caught red-handed while selling pyrotechnic devices, of category P1 and F2, to minors under the age of 14, sales permitted only to adults.
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