Hundreds of dead birds scattered the streets of Rome after an unauthorized bombardment lit up the sky on New Year’s Eve – an animal rights activist scene called the “massacre”.
“Perhaps they 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 hit each other or hit windows or power lines,” Diglio said. “Let’s not forget that I can also die of a heart attack.”
Residents of the Italian capital started the fireworks en masse, despite the city’s ban on displays and a 22-hour law coverage due to the coronavirus pandemic – but both were ignored by many locals.
Diglio said fireworks hurt or injure wild and domestic animals each year, and IOPA’s Italian subsidiary has banned sales of colored explosives for personal use because of the threat to animals.
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