Milan, pyroman vandals set fire to the new slide for children of the Baden Powell park in via Argelati

Of the new slide al Baden Powell park only the wooden skeleton remains, blackened by flames. Colored plastic, green and red, the roof and orange fences to prevent children from falling melted for heat. On the ground the resin of the play area inaugurated last September has a dark stain that testifies theBy virtue of the fire sticked on the night between Sunday and Monday.

We are in via Argelati, A stone’s throw from the Navigli. The alarm went off a few hours before dawn. At the Fire Brigade Operations Center, the call reached 4.12. On the other end of the phone there was A lady, a resident of the area, who lived live What was happening: the high flames, as some videos circulated on social media, who eat the slide and the smell of burnt plastic that fills the air, also testify. A truck of the firefighters from the nearby headquarters in via Darwin. A few minutes and firefighters opened the hydrants to turn off the flames and prevent the fire from spreading to other games. Next to it there are swinging and swings.

The patrols of the local police. It is induced on the episode, of clearly malicious matrix. The agents, led by the commander Gianluca Mirabelli, acquired i Films of the cameras of video surveillance of the area, to be passed to the sieve in the hope that they may have recorded some useful details to identify the managers. That could be The young people who bivaccia here at night. The brigade listen The testimonies of the tenants of the buildings around. From their stories, from what they have seen or heard, ideas could arrive for investigations.

An inexplicable act that has left residents, families and also embittered The president of the Town Hall 6, Santo Minniti. «Damaging a public good is always serious, when it concerns a game intended for children and children it is A cruel gesture», He thundered Minniti. The park, of 35 thousand square meters, is very frequented between children, masters walking with the dog and runner. And that of the other night is not an isolated episode: a few weeks ago A ping pong table had been vandalized. This is why citizens have launched one Petition to the mayor Beppe Sala By asking « urgently » more checks, to fence the area and to install new surveillance cameras.

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