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How arsonists used cats to spread Italy’s wildfires
Cable News Network ^ | Jul 22, 2026 | Max Saltman , Sharon Braithwaite

Posted on 07/31/2026 10:35:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai

As wildfires blazed in southern Italy this week, authorities probing for arson found a grisly clue: cats “with flammable-soaked rags tied to their tails.”

“These animals were released into the fields, running around and spreading the fire,” said Domenico Costarella of Calabria’s Civil Protection Agency in a video posted on Facebook on Tuesday. He added that other pieces of evidence also pointed to arson, including candles lit among flammable rags and delayed ignition devices.

Firefighters are still working to contain blazes around Calabria’s Pollino National Park, according to Italian broadcaster RAI, which reported Wednesday that firefighting teams have completed more than 160 missions within Calabria in the past 24 hours.

According to CNN’s Italian affiliate SkyTG24, the Italian Association for the Defense of Animals and the Environment has filed a criminal complaint and offered a €1,000 reward for information on who may have set the cats alight. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; European Union; France; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; animalcruelty; arson; cats; eussr; fourthreich; ireland; italy; rop; spain; wildfires
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1 posted on 07/31/2026 10:35:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

That is a fascinating method to spread flames.


2 posted on 07/31/2026 10:41:13 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

NOT for VIKING KITTY !


3 posted on 07/31/2026 10:43:51 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ConservativeMind

Sick minds, sick thoughts.


4 posted on 07/31/2026 10:45:23 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: ConservativeMind

Seems to echo (or mock) what Samson did to the cornfields of the Philistines in Judges 15:4-5, although he used 300 of some kind of wild canine (the translation of Hebrew “shu’al” varies between “jackal” and “fox”).


5 posted on 07/31/2026 10:45:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Many of these big fires from California to Canada and Europe are being deliberately set.

Not enough is said about this obvious terrorism.


6 posted on 07/31/2026 10:47:01 AM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: Olog-hai

SDomeone read the Bible: Samson & 300 foxes to burn the Philistrine grain fields.


7 posted on 07/31/2026 10:47:25 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Mother Nature needs to give El Nino a good spanking!)
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To: lonestar67

I just heard a report that “over 90 percent” of them are “caused by humans”; of course, nothing is said about accidental versus deliberate, which heavily implies deliberate.


8 posted on 07/31/2026 10:56:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lonestar67

On top of that, before that was revealed, the media over there were crowing about the “climate crisis”.


9 posted on 07/31/2026 10:57:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ConservativeMind

I remember once reading about doing this once “The old handbook for psychopaths” except foxes were used instead of cats.

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.


10 posted on 07/31/2026 10:59:14 AM PDT by algore ( )
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To: Olog-hai

Hurting cats. Now that might rouse the Karens to do the right thing.


11 posted on 07/31/2026 10:59:50 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like an idea straight out of the Bin Laden manual.


12 posted on 07/31/2026 11:01:09 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: Olog-hai

But the news media says they’re “wildfires”, not arson and animal cruelty.


13 posted on 07/31/2026 11:02:55 AM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Olog-hai

and the fires spread with Cat-o-stropic effects...


14 posted on 07/31/2026 11:10:19 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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15 posted on 07/31/2026 11:11:10 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Olog-hai

OMG! These son’s of ****s will burn us all to death!
Don’t give BLM/Antifa any new ideas. They burned my community with bums paid to set out gas cans.


16 posted on 07/31/2026 11:11:43 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: algore

Ive read about techniques like this being used by various others too. We tied little incendiary to bats not that long ago.

Though to your point, I had thought of that right away also and wondered about who may have been sending a message.


17 posted on 07/31/2026 11:17:43 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (It puts the needle in its skin or it gets the mask again.)
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To: Olog-hai

Cats! Git a rope.


18 posted on 07/31/2026 11:21:26 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity. |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
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To: ConservativeMind

Animals are better than those stupid, evil jerks. My cats, Daisy and Blackie agree.


19 posted on 07/31/2026 11:24:07 AM PDT by Veto! ((Whatever it is, I'm against it))
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To: dfwgator

Love it.


20 posted on 07/31/2026 11:25:56 AM PDT by Veto! ((Whatever it is, I'm against it))
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