With the arrival of summer and the increase in water request, the carabinieri of the company of Melito Porto Salvo have intensified controls against water thefts, a phenomenon that – in times of drought and waste – takes on even more serious contours.
And in recent days, during specific services in the area, The soldiers of the Saline di Montebello Jonico and Condofuri San Carlo stations discovered three cases of illegal connections to the municipal water network, denouncing as many subjects. To end up under the lens of the carabinieri: two men of Condofuri and a woman residing in the Saline hamlet of the Municipality of Montebello Jonico.
The investigations revealed how the three had made real bypass to public pipelines, using water for the irrigation of vegetable gardens, the breeding of courtyard animals and even to feed a private fountain.
But the theft of water is not a simple offense: in cases like this, the dispute of the aggravated theftcrime that provides for more severe penalties when the subtraction concerns goods intended for public service.