They are “much more than simple infringements”, because “they represent a clear manifestation of criminal power, a challenge open to democratic institutions and a serious threat to public safety and the well -being of animals”. Sum up lto the parliamentary commission of investigation into the ecomafiasat the end of an investigation dedicated to the clandestine races of horses, classified as “a phenomenon rooted in Italy, especially in the South”. For mafia, Camorra is Ndrangheta is not just a game: around the races a business as dirty as it is remunerative.
Data, scenarios and prospects are all contained in the relationship just approved, which in the next few days will be presented by the Commission in a briefing with the press in Catania. A non -random location, because Sicily is the area where the phenomenon becomes a real emergency: often the streets of Catania, but also those of Messina with the Vietri Visto “Teatro” privileged “theater” viale, are transformed into very dangerous improvised hippodromas. But also Calabria, and Reggio in particular, does not joke: one of the historic race fields was the first stretch of the Gallic-Gambarie road.
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