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Venice, the water under Rialto is fluorescent green: “Environmental assessments”

An explanation scientific it’s not there yet, but the photos are already making around the world. Sunday 28 May Venice she woke up with one fluorescent green spot along a stretch of the Grand Canalin one of focal points of the lagoon. «This morning a patch of phosphorescent liquid» wrote the president Luca Zaia. «She was reported by some residents at the height of the Rialto bridge».

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Right from the environs of famous monument come the amazing shots. “The prefect has summoned one urgent meeting with the police force to investigate further the origin of the liquid», concluded the number one of the Region. “It’s about a abnormal colouring», say the operators of Veneto harp which, thanks to the technical assistance of Fire fightersare already analyzing the samples picked up.

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The goal is to give as soon as possible an answer to the main question: what caused that bizarre emerald fluorescence? In the meantime, awaiting the response of the laboratoriessome hypotheses are already circulating: «In the city we talk about a Japanese seaweed» are the words of Aldo Crime, voice of the gondoliers and city councilor, reported by Courier of the Veneto. “It certainly is an absolute novelty».

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“It’s not even ruled out the demonstrative act of an artist intending to convey a message», he added, «in Venice anything makes the news all over the world. However it seems it is not nothing polluting». The most accredited hypothesis, at the moment, is that something has been thrown into the canal, even pillsbut not for demonstration purposes, since no activist association has claimed the gesture.

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