About 500 thousand calls to 112 , 12 thousand reported, 1,100 arrested and 35 tons of drugs seized .
These are just some of the numbers of a year of activity carried out by the Carabinieri in Sardinia which today celebrate the 208th anniversary of the foundation of the Arma and the 200 years of presence of the Carabinieri in Sardinia.
To celebrate the anniversaries, ceremonies were organized during the morning in all the provincial commands of the island, while in Cagliari, at the headquarters of the Sardinia Carabinieri Legion, the overall ceremony was held, open to the public after two years of limitations related to pandemic.
Present among others the president of the Region Christian Solinas , the mayor of Cagliari, Paolo Truzzu , the bishop Giuseppe Baturi , the prefect Gianfranco Tomao , the commissioner Paolo Rossi , soldiers and many other authorities from all the provinces of Sardinia.
In his speech, the commander of the Legion, General Francesco Gargaro , illustrated the results achieved by the Carabinieri in Sardinia in 2021: "The approximately 500,000 calls, almost 1400 a day , received in 2021 to the Operations Centers distributed throughout the regional territory, through the emergency number 112, which was followed by operational, rescue and assistance interventions ", he underlined. In the past year, all the members of the Arma deferred about 12,000 people to a state of freedom and arrested over 1100 , prosecuting 33,500 crimes, which correspond to almost 80% of those that occurred overall ".
The general then recalled the capture of the fugitive Graziano Mesina , the activity of road patrols with 620,000 people identified and 450,000 vehicles controlled and that carried out for the protection of the environment with 50 contested violations.
AWARDS - During the ceremony, 44 soldiers were awarded who distinguished themselves in various activities and which made it possible to vanquish 3 criminal organizations specialized in drug trafficking that operated between Sardinia, Corsica, Tuscany and Lazio and arrest with the help of the Ris specialists, the alleged perpetrators of the murders in Orune and Genoni.
The carabinieri who saved a 6-month-old baby in Gavoi and the soldiers who saved a 20-year-old in Capoterra who wanted to take his own life were also rewarded.
SOLINAS - “The carabinieri are a heritage of Sardinia . The history of the weapon itself is inextricably intertwined with that of our island ”, said Governor Christian Solinas at the ceremony.
“The military corps of the Kingdom of Sardinia - from 1776 the Light Dragon Corps of Sardinia and from 1819 Royal Hunters of Sardinia - in fact merged into the Carabinieri. Today - added the president - we also honor the memory of the many carabinieri who fell in the fulfillment of their duty, many young Sardinians who have honored their glorious uniform by offering their lives ".
"The most important merit, I am sure, concluded Solinas - is the trust and esteem that the Carabinieri has earned in the eyes of the people , representing a garrison of legality, generosity, altruism and heroism that have become in the centuries a heritage of all, a wealth of our society ".
(Unioneonline / lf)
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The military heroes of the fire in the Oristano area have been awarded: