Cuglieri fire, 5 citizens oppose the dismissal: «Rescue arrived late»
The huge fire that broke out in 2021, the hearing yesterday. But for the Prosecutor's Office it is an accidental fact
The opposition focused on three points : lack of prevention , negligent reclamation intervention and late relief efforts in Cuglieri .
In the summer of two years ago all hell broke loose on Montiferru with devastating damage. This is why the decision of the Oristano Prosecutor's Office which had requested the dismissal of the investigation aroused dissent from the community and in particular from some citizens who lodged an opposition to the request for dismissal.
And yesterday the lawyers Rafaele Cocco, Serena Contini, Roberto Dau, Sandra Sassu and Gianfranco Cubadda, who represent Giovanni Galistu, Rafaele Coco, Giovanni Luigi Macchiaveli, Marco Sassu, Nico Cubadda, argued before judge Federica Fulgheri. Who will have to decide whether to dismiss it, as prosecutor Sara Ghiani reiterated yesterday, or accept the defense's request.
In the classroom
That fire was the largest in Italy in the scorching summer of 2021: around 13 thousand hectares in smoke , companies on their knees and homes damaged. A disaster seen with their own eyes by the citizens.
"Towards Cuglieri the fire was not contained, we were abandoned and help only arrived at 11pm" claim the citizens who oppose the prosecutor's decision.
On the afternoon of July 23rd a fire started from a car due to a breakdown on the provincial road that leads from Bonarcado to Santu Lussurgiu. The flames were put out late in the evening, then the cleanup continued the following day. By midday on 24 July the fire had regained strength due to the presence of an underground fire characterized by the absence of a naked flame and little smoke.
To the investigations of the Oristano Forestry Corps, were added those of the Cagliari Ris and the Forestry Protection Unit of the Rome Carabinieri who, after careful investigations and inspections, identified the points where the fire had broken out.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, this was an accidental event , there would have been no errors or delays in the rescue and the fact that no human life was lost would demonstrate that the fire-fighting machine worked.
The opposition
Five citizens, however, are not there. And they insist on the lack of maintenance of the woodland heritage and the absence of firebreaks. And again the focus is on the forces in the field: on the morning of the 24th some teams were diverted to other fronts. Finally, the delay in the arrival of the Canadian planes and the failure to convene the municipal operations centre. Judge Fulgheri reserved her decision.
Patrizia Mocci
