Crimes against the environment decreased in 2021 (-12.3% on 2020) but did not go below 30,000 offenses (30,590 ascertained), recording an average of almost 84 crimes a day, about 3.5 every hour.
Legambiente denounces it in the Ecomafia 2022 report which shows that arrests are growing to 368 (+11.9% on 2020).
Almost 44% of crimes are concentrated in Campania, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily and at the provincial level Rome is first for eco-crimes.
Golden loot for eco-mafiosi who had a turnover of 8.8 billion euros in 2021.