Twenty-one firearms, sixteen cutting weapons, thirteen improper ones - such as brass knuckles, clubs and nunchucks - and 194 ammunition: a total of 50 weapons were seized in the month of January alone by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command in Naples, who in the same period arrested 17 for carrying and possessing weapons people (including a minor), reporting 23 (of which six minors).
The Carabinieri of Naples conduct daily checks to prevent the spread of weapons among younger people.
Dagger weapons, but above all knives, daggers and blades that can be easily hidden in trouser pockets.
The checks are combined with urgent awareness raising in schools and the most popular public places.
Through the diffusion of evocative and strong images, collected in a poster and in a brochure intended for school groups, the Provincial Command of the Force wanted to launch a simple but impactful message: "The first victim is you!".
Whoever pulls the trigger or holds a knife, whoever wounds - this is the meaning of the campaign - poisons the lives of others but above all their own.
Returning to the controls, the seizures of firearms and firearms are daily.
Also included are the blank ones and the toy ones without the red cap.
Because their concrete inoffensiveness - moreover often unknown to the victims - reduces their strong intimidating power.
This is demonstrated by the arrest of two 18-year-olds in the Neapolitan neighborhood of Vomero.
They had just carried out three robberies using a stage gun: it was impossible, in the excitement, to understand whether it was a toy weapon or a real one.
Or the arrest a few hours ago in Boscoreale of a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, who robbed the employee of a petrol pump while holding a fake gun without a red cap.
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