A significant marine environmental control operation carried out on the input of the Lamezia Terme Prosecutor’s Office, led by Elio Romano, in order to verify the regularity of the companies involved in the management of discharges, waste and occupation of state-owned maritime land along the coast.
The activity, specifically, involved the soldiers of the ad hoc joint force group constituted by the Prosecutor’s Office of Lamezia Terme, belonging to the Coast Guard of Vibo Valentia and Pizzo, the Aeronaval Operations Department of the Guardia di Finanza of Vibo Valentia, the Guardia di Finanza Group of Lamezia Terme and the Forestry Carabinieri Group of Catanzaro, with the technical/scientific support of the Arpacal of Catanzaro.
The military, during environmental checks carried out on an agricultural company operating in the Lamezia Terme countryside, found that part of the company’s crops insisted on a state-owned maritime area close to the shoreline. As a result of the investigations, which were also extended to the offices of the Municipality of Lamezia Terme, in order to prevent the continuation of the illicit conduct, a maritime state-owned area of approximately 26,000 m2, occupied by the PG of the Environmental Task Force, was placed under preventive emergency seizure without title and used for onion cultivation, perimetered and delimited by oleander hedges and a fence made of wooden posts and metal mesh, protection systems for crops, consisting of tunnel-type iron structures with plastic covering and irrigation system, consisting of a system of pipes, fittings and dispensers.
Once the seizure was validated, the owner of the agricultural company was charged with the crime of illegal occupation of a state-owned maritime area and violation of landscape legislation since the illegally occupied state-owned maritime area is subject to protective and inhibitory restrictions.