A examined and structured system of irregular disposal of textile waste was discovered between Prato and Florence and reported by two individuals. This is the umpteenth intervention by the Florence Municipal Police and their colleagues in Prato in opposition to the unlawful dumping of garbage. It all began just a little over two months in the past when the Rifredi division acquired a report of black luggage stuffed with textile waste being discarded.
The pair illegally dumped garbage at evening, taking a light-weight blue van and filling all of the bins within the Piagge space. Inspections started, and after a number of surveillances, the van was recognized. Further investigation revealed that the automobile was “primarily based” in Prato, so brokers from the Rifredi division believed that there have been different causes behind the abandonment and due to this fact contacted colleagues from the Wooltown Investigations and Environment Department.
Together they launched an investigation commissioned by the Prato prosecutor’s workplace, following and observing the van and its passengers for a number of days. This exercise made it potential to verify the existence of a structured modus operandi. In different phrases, the rubbish is loaded at lunchtime on sure days of the week; as soon as the van is full, it’s left in a secluded spot in Florence within the early afternoon, after which the driving force returns to Prato.
Then a few times every week, between 3am and 5am, the driving force and proprietor return to the van and, with the assistance of one other individual, unload the garbage luggage into bins within the Piagge space. Then return to Prato within the late morning, the place the exercise is repeated in the identical means. The checks, carried out by plainclothes brokers from the Florence and Prato metropolis police stations and documented with pictures and video, established that a lot of the items got here from the identical manufacturing warehouse on the economic outskirts of Prato.
