Hundreds of dead birds filled the streets of Rome after a bombardment of unauthorized fireworks illuminated the sky on New Year’s Eve, an animal rights activist who called a “massacre.”
“They may have died of fear,” Loredana Diglio, a spokeswoman for the International Organization for the Protection of Animals, told the Associated Press.
“They can fly together and crash into each other, or hit windows or power lines,” Diglio said. “Let’s not forget that they can also die of heart attacks.”
Residents in the Italian capital fired fireworks en masse despite the ban on cities on screens and the curfew at 10pm due to the coronavirus pandemic, but both were ignored.
Diglio said fireworks show distress or made wild and domestic animals every year, and the Italian branch of IOPA had imposed a ban on the sale of colored explosives for personal use because of the threat to animals.
With publishing cables