Fires in Calabria, Occhiuto: 2 arsonists arrested, 70 reported since early summer
The President of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, posted a video on social networks showing with a tablet images of two arsonists in the countryside of Gallico, in the province of Reggio Calabria, setting a fire to burn some rubbish
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Seventy have been reported since the beginning of the summer. Twenty-five drones are in the field, monitoring 1,500 km a day; the governor of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, comments: 'unfortunately, they are not enough to stop all the fools'.
Drone filming
.'Look at these two: what are they doing? - commented the Governor on his social pages, showing the video shot with drones - They have dumped waste, burned it, made a fire. Large fires are often generated from these fires'. Says Roberto Occhiuto while showing with a tablet the images of two arsonists who in the countryside of Gallico, in the province of Reggio Calabria, set a fire to burn some waste. Once again this year, to fight the fires, the Calabria Region has deployed 25 drones that monitor over 1,500 km of territory every day, a total that exceeded 40,000 km in July.
Zero Tolerance Operation
.Since the beginning of the summer, thanks to Operation Zero Tolerance, 70 arsonists and arsonists have already been reported to the relevant authorities. "These are images," the governor emphasises, "taken by regional employees, therefore by the Region, with the drones we use to monitor the territory. These two were reported to the judicial authorities, the police came, arrested them, and the next day they were put on summary trial. Now I will go to the control room to thank the regional employees who are doing this work, which did not exist in Calabria until four years ago and which now everyone envies us, they are trying to copy it throughout Italy and Europe. It is the fruit of our work, the fruit of the work of the regional employees we have trained'. The video then shows President Roberto Occhiuto visiting the regional control room of Operation Zero Tolerance.
The work of employees and a message "against stupidity"
.'Don't stop,' says Occhiuto addressing the regional employees working in the control room, 'don't stop even in these months. This is goodbye,' he emphasises, 'what we have put together and which we are envied on all sides, we must not let it be destroyed. "Certainly,' the governor concludes in the video, 'against stupidity even the best of jobs can do little, against the stupidity of those who do not understand that we must not set fires, we must not destroy the environment, especially in a beautiful region like ours.
