“Yet another arson who has The olive grove confiscated in Baronello, in the municipality of Oppido Mamertina, is devastated, it is a very serious and cowardly attack Against those who work every day to affirm the values of legality and social redemption in the most difficult territories of our country ».
This was stated in a statement by the senator Enza Rando, responsible for legality and fight against the mafias of the Democratic Party, in relation to the fire that last Friday has Destroyed 830 trees on almost 4 hectares of land entrusted to a cooperative engaged in the social reuse of the assets confiscated from organized crime. “Let’s talk – adds Rando – of an already target, over the years, of numerous intimidating acts: in 2011 the flames had destroyed 500 centuries -old trees, in 2012 a confiscated excavator had been burned and in 2015 almost 100 saplings had just planted had been demolished. Despite everything, the cooperative has always resisted and reconstructed. Now, this new attack aims once again to hit hope, the work. We are preparing an urgent question to the minister planted in which we ask that the state is present, concretely, alongside those who have been hit. – says the parliamentarian – intervening in the classroom on other episodes of damage: crime strikes because it is afraid. And for this reason we must make sure that those who sow legality is not left alone ».