Police seize 26,000 illegal fireworks on Kos

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A monolithic 26,000 fireworks recovered successful the possession of a store proprietor connected the southeastern Aegean Sea land of Kos person been confiscated, constabulary said Wednesday, amid an intensified crackdown up of Orthodox Easter.

While letting disconnected fireworks is traditional successful Greece astatine Easter, it is against the instrumentality and constabulary person made a string of arrests crossed the state successful caller weeks. Several injuries are recorded each year arsenic a effect of the custom.

“Over the Easter holidays, we carnivore witness to terrible accidents … owed to the unsafe customized of letting disconnected fireworks, adjacent though it is illegal,” a constabulary statement said. 

The store proprietor arrested connected Kos Tuesday was identified arsenic a 59-year-old Greek national.

The nationwide crackdown has included the land of Chios, further north, where the village of Vrontados hosts an yearly “rocket war” successful which hundreds of fireworks are fired successful what has go a tourist attraction.

Seven radical were arrested there Sunday aft suffering burns successful an accident, allegedly while making rockets for the Vrontados event.