The Campania Guardia di Finanza, in view of the approaching New Year's Eve, has seized over 52 tons of clandestine or illegally held fireworks.
The biggest result is the result of an inter-provincial operation between Naples and Caserta; in particular, the financial police of the Giugliano Company, in collaboration with colleagues from the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Caserta, after having noticed a container truck entering a company importing and selling fireworks in Teano (CE), seized 30 tons of category F2, F3 and F4 pyrotechnic devices, containing an active mass of over 4 tons of explosive, for a market value of over half a million euros.
The company legally authorized to operate in the sector, however, stored fireworks and explosive materials well beyond the limits set by the license. 2000 batteries of fireworks were seized and the legal representative of the company, a 69-year-old from Teano (CE), was reported to the Judicial Authority for failure to report explosive materials to the Authority.
At the same time, the Pozzuoli Company seized 3 tons of fireworks, 2 presses for the production of pyrotechnic material and 85 iron molds, 5 kg of powder, 1950 m of pyrotechnic fuse and 20 kg of sulfur inside a clandestine factory.
The property, located in a densely populated area of Pianura, and the machinery used to make the fireworks were also seized, while the person responsible, a 52-year-old Neapolitan, was arrested in flagrante delicto for violations of the Consolidated Law on Public Safety and the Penal Code.
During two operations, the “Baschi Verdi” of the Pronto Impiego Group of Naples, during an inspection activity against an individual company of Castello di Cisterna (NA) operating in the retail sector and following an access to a house in Qualiano (NA), seized a total of 80 kg. of pyrotechnic material illegally held without the
Public Safety license and homemade explosive devices expected, reporting 3 individuals, 1 from Campania and 2 of Chinese origin.
Furthermore, the Nola Group and the Casalnuovo Company, during two road checks, seized 140 kg of illegal fireworks transported on two vans, reporting 4 Neapolitan citizens at large.
The repressive action of the Guardia di Finanza of the Province of Caserta was also very active and effective. In particular, the Marcianise Company blocked a load of 14 pallets containing over 75.000 dangerous “Cobra 6” type explosives, for a total weight of over 7 tons. The material, which was about to be shipped to Germany, had been hidden in boxes without any warning about the dangerousness of the contents precisely to escape controls, but with obvious risks of accidental detonation during transport.
Two other significant results were achieved a few days ago by the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Caserta, which had identified a clandestine artisan laboratory in the countryside of the municipality of Spigno Saturnia (LT), seizing 18.000 assembled fireworks, weighing over 450 kg, 40.000 semi-finished products, 56 kg of gunpowder, and in another operation an apartment in Vitulazio where a criminal was producing fireworks of the “Super Cobra 6” and “Trac Rendino” type: the financial police seized 1.800 cardboard cylinders, over 800 fuses, 55 primers for “paper bombs”, 12 kg of black powder, and arrested the person responsible.
The checks ordered at the regional level are still ongoing and other seizures have been reported in these hours both in the Province of Naples (Portici, Frattamaggiore, Casalnuovo and Quagliano) and in the Province of Caserta (Caserta, Aversa, Marcianise and Capua), confirming an operational synergy between the Guardia di Finanza of Campania, in particular of Naples and Caserta, particularly intense in the prevention and repression of the clandestine and illegal diffusion of the end-of-year “firecrackers”.
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