Italian authorities on Sunday destroyed with a controlled explosion a six-storey house previously seized by the ‘Ndrangheta mafia group in the southern region of Calabria. While he writes RepublicThis building, formerly a furniture factory, has been marring the seascape of the town of Torre Melissa on the Ionian Sea for forty years.
In 2007, the building was seized by gendarmes within the scope of Operation Free Square.
According to La Repubblica, the building has been under state ownership and unused since 2012. Last year, Calabrian authorities decided to build a parking lot for wheeled pickup trucks, which the media called “eco-monsters”.
400 kilograms of TNT, distributed among various payloads, were used to destroy the building. Regional president Roberto Occhiuto was personally on site to oversee the operation. The video of the moment of the explosion was published on Calabria’s website.
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