Trial of the daters: an exemplary punishment for the material executor of the environmental disaster. The request made by the Public Prosecutor Giulio Vanacore during yesterday's closing speech in the hearing at the Court of Naples
Twelve years of imprisonment, a 12 euro fine, confiscation of the means and tools used to remove the date mussel from the rock so that they can be sent to the Punta Campanella Marine Protected Area for monitoring activities. These are the requests formulated yesterday by the Public Prosecutor, Giulio Vanacore, during the closing speech in the hearing held at the Court of Naples, before Judge Rosaria Maria Aufieri.
A detailed and accurate indictment that highlighted the serious crimes committed by AC, a poacher of sea dates. In fact, he was the one who dived, destroyed the rock and devastated the seabed. He was caught red-handed as he re-emerged from the water with 25 kilos of dates. The defendant, who already has numerous specific precedents, is considered by the Prosecutor's Office to be a criminal, linked to the organized crime of Castellammate di Stabia. During the wiretaps it emerged that the places where he operated were Punta Scutolo, in the municipality of Vico Equense, Punta Campanella and Capri. The Prosecutor requested 12 years of imprisonment for the crimes of disaster and environmental pollution and damage, with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the crime in a protected area.
Among the requests of the PM, also the confiscation of the dinghy and the car used by the date traders, with the assignment of the aforementioned assets in favor of the Punta Campanella Marine Protected Area, which is a civil party in the trial defended by the lawyer Valentina Romoli of the Rome Bar Association.
In yesterday's hearing, only the positions of 3 defendants who chose the abbreviated trial were discussed. For all the others, the trial will continue with the ordinary trial.
The proceeding, in fact, is an excerpt of the larger trial that is being held in Naples against all the date traders involved and which will continue in the coming months.
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Two criminal groups are on trial, dedicated to the collection and marketing of sea dates in the Vesuvian areas, one active in particular in the area of the Port of Naples and the other in the area of Castellammare di Stabia, Sorrento Peninsula and Capri. After more than 3 years of investigations by the Guardia di Finanza and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples, the two groups of date traders were stopped last March, when numerous precautionary measures of detention in prison and other coercive measures were triggered.
“The Punta Campanella MPA, since its establishment, has had to deal with these illegal activities, both with awareness-raising actions and campaigns, and with reports and complaints for the serious damage suffered, with devastation and desertification of large stretches of seabed - underlines Lucio Cacace, President of the Punta Campanella Marine Protected Area - Now, with this proceeding and with the other that should open shortly at the Court of Torre Annunziata, we hope to definitively eradicate this criminal phenomenon that has caused huge environmental damage to the seabed of the Gulf of Naples.
We are very grateful to the Police, the Guardia di Finanza and the Port Authority, and to the Public Prosecutors of Naples and Torre Annunziata for their efforts and in particular to the Public Prosecutor, Dr. Giulio Vanacore, for having requested the assignment in our favor of the goods seized from the date harvesters. A sign, also symbolic, of great attention towards the Punta Campanella MPA”.
Article published on November 11, 2021 - 09:54
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