The operations of securing the territory, coordinated by the Prefecture of Milan, began at 09.00 and ended at 14.00. The Italian Army specialists, after identifying the devices, checked their status and assessed the surrounding area, decided to have the artifacts shined in the same place where they were discovered, where a 4 meter depth containment pit was set up. in order to reduce the clearance area to only 100 meters, thus avoiding the evacuation of citizens residing in the area adjacent to the construction site. The 10 ° Cremona Engineers Guild Regiment is one of the 7 Units of the Engineer of Genius charged with reclaiming the territory of central-northern Italy from the numerous war residues still existing and dangerous. In the 2014 the expert specialists carried out 138 interventions, reclaiming 2522 bombs of which 613 airplane bombs. Today's successful intervention, which lasted about 5 hours, was carried out by the team leader, Sergeant Francesco Zarra and his EOD nucleus (Esplosive Ordnance Disposal), which now boasts a consolidated experience, gained also defusing the insidious devices of circumstance during the various missions abroad such as Afghanistan, Lebanon, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Source: Command of the Land Operational Forces
