They will have to appear next March 22 before the Collegial Court of Cagliari to answer for environmental disaster.

Nine citizens of Bosnian origin were indicted by the gup Giorgio Alfieri, who accepted the request of the prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia, owner of the file on the fires of waste in illegal landfills near the Roma camp on state road 554, just outside Cagliari.

An area near the motor vehicle where all kinds of waste have been set on fire for years, invading the districts of Mulinu Becciu and San Michele with smoke and dioxin.

On 25 November 2016, at the request of the prosecutor Pilia, the Court seized the Roma camp and some vans used to transport the garbage.

The investigation conducted by Noe dei Carabinieri had closed with the hypothesis of the crime of abandonment, collection, illegal management of waste, including special and dangerous, pollution and environmental disaster.

In the preliminary hearing this morning, the Legal Intervention Group, the environmentalist association that several times over the years has denounced the activity of burning waste, the risks of pollution and damage to the inhabitants of the area and for the environment.

On 22 March next year, the nine defendants will appear before the college for the first hearing of the trial.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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