e farmer who testified to an anti-Mafia commission in 2022 said he was approached by solar panel companies to sell his land after it had been burned.

Sergio Nazzaro, a journalist and former spokesman for the president of the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission, said that Mafia groups exploit emergencies through front organizations,  from the labor force that sets the fire to the concession to build on burned land. 

In Calabria, Costarella of the Civil Protection Department warned that stopping arson would take a societal shift.

 We are getting back to work and returning to our posts, but we need a shift in mindset,  he said.  These are inhumane acts. Sadly, men are their own worst enemies.