Reclamation intervention at the Trotter Park in Milan

02/03/15

Following the discovery on Thursday February 26 of a Yugoslavian-manufactured M75 grenade by some students inside Milan's Trotter Park, at the request of the Prefecture, the 10 bomb makers of the Genio Guastatori Regiment of the "Ariete" Armored Brigade have intervened in order to verify the possible presence of further devices.

The park area was precauzionally closed to the citizens and on the spot the local police ensured the opening of the numerous school facilities with the presence of a fixed garrison.

The Army specialists, with the help of a "MINEX" team (personnel specialized in the reclamation of mined areas and emergency routes in operations abroad), equipped with digital mod. "CEIA" have made an accurate analysis of the land, reclaiming a surface of about 150 square meters.

Many metal objects were found but no other bomb was detected.

The 10 ° Genio Guastatori Regiment is one of the seven Units of the Genius of the Engineers tasked with reclaiming the territory of central and northern Italy from the many still existing and dangerous war residues.

In the 2014 expert specialists have reclaimed 2522 bombs including 613 plane bombs.

Source: Command of the Land Operational Forces