Baseball Field Vandalism & Theft: 10th Incident in 2 Years

Villafranca

The Wizards company is exasperated. President Ferrari: “The non -valuable loot, greater the damage caused”

Burst of theft e di vandalism al baseball field, which is located in via della Speranza, next to the Tione Park, in Villafranca. Executives and athletes of the Wizards Villafranca Baseball AsdAmateur sports association, are exasperated by the dripping of mini-racies and incursions of thugs who have been taking place for two years now in the diamond service clubs, as the playing field of this team sport is called, which is located outside the center.

The desilated position compared to the houses of the district facilitates visits to thugs and attackers in the plant that the Municipality has rented to the company chaired by Silvio Ferrariactivated in the area for forty years with a hundred athletes divided into five teams.

The last blow made by unknown persons, perhaps boys given the small dimensions of the hikes from which strangers are entered the warehouse of the company, dates back to a few days ago. To notice the entrance of the thieves, which probably took place at night, were the same sportsmen when they found themselves for the usual workouts. Through two holes in the upper part of a wall Lateral of the room, both measures of 50 by 60 centimeters, the thieves penetrated the deposit of the sports association. “The stolen goods,” says Ferrari, “is not of great value, given that the strangers took away a couple of boxes of ice cream that were in the freezer”. “The more the damage they caused,” underlines Ferrari, “since they torn some butties, installed precisely to prevent the entrances and damaged the plasterboard”.

Denunciation and outburst on social networks

The head of the baseball company has already filed a complaint against unknown people for theft and damage to the Carabinieri Citizens, as he had already made in the past. Beyond the relative economic value of the damage, given that to close the “holes” made by the thieves in the wall the company will spend about 200 euros, to irritate the managers and the athletes is precisely the repetition of these incursions. So much so that Ferrari and the other managers of the sports team, after the last incursion, the fourth since the beginning of the year, They vented their anger on the social page of the association, accompanying it with lots of photos of the damage suffered.

The activity continues

“Despite the commitment of the volunteers to create a safe and welcoming place for the boys,” the managers wrote, “there are those who choose to ruin what belongs to the whole community. We do not stop: we will continue to teach, welcome and build. However it hurts to see how work and passion of many are destroyed by simple stunts ». So the president and the managers of the Wizards decided to launch an appeal to citizenship: “Help us to protect this space: the field is not just a sporting structure, it is a house for our young people”.

Ten thefts in two years

“In the last two years,” Ferrari points out, “we suffered about ten incursions Like this. At the beginning they had taken away that little cash that we kept in stock for any eventuality. Later, not finding anything anymore, the vandals have limited themselves to doing damage. With the board “, announces the president,” we are taking into consideration to implement measures, such as the future installation of surveillance cameras or lighting systems that automatically light up when a person approaches the system, working as a deterrent and increasing security “. “During the day,” concludes Ferrari, 76 years old, driving the partnership for 40 years, “we see the patrols of the local police along the street. However, these episodes happen mainly at night, when the system is closed ».