Via dei Cappellari in Rome
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September 30, 2020 The Army bomb squads intervened to defuse a bomb found in the center of Rome, in via dei Cappellari, a stone's throw from the central Piazza Campo de 'Fiori.
The reclamation operations, which took place in coordination with the Rome Police Headquarters, involved the evacuation within a radius of one hundred meters from the place of discovery.
Army specialists secured the area and deactivated the timed fuze before preparing the device for transport to the place where it will be fired.
The bomb, dating back to the First World War, is an 81mm bomb weighing 2.8 kg of Italian manufacture and was found during the renovation of the flooring on the ground floor of a building.
The Army bomb squads are employed daily in the occasional reclamation of the territory from war devices.
During 2019, 2,166 interventions were carried out for a total of over 34 thousand reclaimed ordnance (of which 19 large-capacity aircraft bombs.