The last suggestion emerged during the work of the Anti-Mafia commission, which in recent weeks is investigating the fires: some landowners said they were approached by intermediaries to sell the fields to those who want to build new photovoltaic systems, a business that is increasingly supplanting agriculture in Sicily. The hypothesis – still in its embryonic state, and therefore to be verified – is that part of the fires that have devastated the island since Thursday come from that matrix: certainly not at the
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