ROME: Italy Police have seized 900kg of illicit fireworks in a blitz ahead of New Year’s Eve in the different raids here the other day. As authorities aim to limit the number of injuries at the city’s annual celebration.
A total of 700kg were seized from a 72-year-old owner of a toy shop in the Italian capital, who was selling fireworks without the correct license.
In doing so he “put his safety and that of his customers at serious risk,” police said in a statement here the other day.
A further 200kg were discovered in a shop owned by a 50-year-old man who had already been reported to the police for selling fireworks illegally. Both men were released on bail, police said.
