Intervention by the army blasters in Brescia

29/05/14

In the municipality of Brescia, the 10 ° rgt genii guastatori was called to carry out a delicate reclamation intervention inside an apartment, located in the immediate vicinity of the castle of the city.

Following the owner's clean-up of the attic, two 75 mm artillery shells and a fuse from the 1 world war of Italian nationality were found to be dangerous because they are still active. The Brescia prefecture, given also the location of the apartment very close to the city center, required an urgent remediation intervention to the Interregional Defense Force Command North of Padua, a military body delegated to coordinate the armed forces in this type of operation, which assessed the danger of the discovery, ordered the immediate intervention of the bomb technicians of the 10 ° regiment genius guastatori.

The team of specialists, commanded, on that occasion by the chief corporal chosen Liotta, arrived at the site, carried out the identification and removal of the devices that, under the security framework of the police, were transported and neutralized in a nearby quarry in the municipality of Rezzato (BS).

The operation that started at 15.00 ended within a few hours of initial activation with the approval of the local authorities for the professionalism and timeliness highlighted by the army's bomb squad.

In the 2013, specialists from the 10 ° regiment genius breakers defused more than 970 bombs in 134 interventions carried out.

The 10 ° regiment of genius breakers is one of the 12 regiments of the army genius able to intervene for the reclamation of unexploded war devices.

Source: Command of the Land Operational Forces