The mayors of the 20 municipalities that are part of the judicial district of Sciacca (Agrigento), and the provincial leaders of the police forces of Agrigento and Trapani, signed a memorandum of understanding todayproposed by the Public Prosecutor, Roberta Buzzolani, pto identify common lines in fire prevention. The document provides for an intensification of control activities, especially in relation to plots of land owned by private individuals, so that they are subjected to timely cleaning interventions and the adoption of all the devices necessary to prevent the spread of fires. The memorandum of understanding signed today follows a similar initiative that Buzzolani adopted in 2017.
“It was a useful experience – says the magistrate – because we noticed that, immediately after its adoption, the reports of crimes involving arson recorded a clear reduction. On the contrary – continues Buzzolani – more recently such reports of crime have started to increase again, and then I considered it necessary to resume the spirit of that agreement, proposing it again. Because – he concludes – there are no acceptable justifications for the phenomenon of fires, such as high temperatures or the sirocco wind: we must avoid at all costs that the fire has the possibility of spreading”. The judicial district of Sciacca includes the Agrigento municipalities of Alessandria della Rocca, Bivona, Burgio, Calamonaci, Caltabellotta, Cianciana, Lucca Sicula, Menfi, Montevago, Ribera, Sambuca di Sicilia, Santa Margherita di Belice, Santo Stefano Quisquina, Sciacca and Villafranca Sicula and the municipalities within the province of Trapani of Gibellina, Partanna, Poggioreale, Salaparuta and Santa Ninfa.
