Fear in Pantelleria , starting yesterday evening, where a fire of "worrying" proportions made it necessary to evacuate several homes .
The fire broke out in the Favarotta, Khamma and Perimetrale districts where the flames , fueled by the sirocco wind, quickly devoured hectares of vegetation .
Among the vacated villas there would also be that of the player Marco Tardelli and the designer Giorgio Armani .
GREAT FEAR - "After a torrid summer full of fires, tonight my beloved Pantelleria is also burning. An arson, here where not even Canadair can arrive because of the wind. Stop arson, those who disfigure our heritage must pay dearly ", says in a tweet the journalist Myrta Melino who has a house on the island with Marco Tardelli. "We are fine, but we are worried for residents, tourists, for all those who are leaving their homes, forced to flee by the flames to one (or more) arsonist. This is a crime", he writes in a post on Instagram actor Claudio Santamaria , who is in Pantelleria with his wife Francesca Barra, a journalist.
The foresters on the north side of the Cuddia di Gadir are busy. The municipal volunteers, on the other hand, are working on the sea side. Departures in the night for the island with the ferry from Mazara del Vallo different teams of the Civil Protection .
" Two Canadians have been intervening since this morning to extinguish the last remaining outbreaks." Now after the shutdown we will do the count of the damages that are important "the words this morning of the mayor of Pantelleria, Vincenzo Campo .
THE INQUIRY - In the meantime, the Public Prosecutor of Marsala , directed by Roberto Piscitello, has opened an investigation . The nature of the stake is still uncertain . Two trigger points 400 meters away from each other, since it could also be compatible with an accidental event. The prosecutors are acquiring the photogrammetric surveys and all the municipal ordinances on the prevention and management of fires.
