TADEAS: tak sem se preventivne smazal. Vlozil sem moc duvery k trusted uctu na Xku. Nebudu teda verit uz nikomu :)

SHEFIK: folklorizovane dezinfo imho:

claude:

This exact story recurs. In 2017 the identical claim circulated about Vesuvius fires; the Forestry Corps denied it and a vet noted no such animals had ever come through the Istituto Zooprofilattico for autopsy. A 2025 Italian fake-news review still lists the "arsonist cats" of Vesuvius as a false story that resurfaces cyclically because it's built on powerful emotional archetypes.

The delayed-ignition devices are mundane and credible; a panicking cat is a uselessly unreliable ignition method by compariso

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Not fabricated by the account, but not verified either — and it has a strong smell of a recurring Italian urban legend.

What's actually documented:
- The claim traces to Domenico Costarella, director general of Calabria's regional Civil Protection, in a video posted on the social channels of regional president Roberto Occhiuto. (Sky TG24) He described finding delayed ignition devices — candles topped with rags soaked in flammable liquid, and empty glass bottles with soaked wicks (Sky TG24) — and then added that in some cases they found cats with a rag soaked in flammable liquid tied to the tail, thrown into fields. (Sky TG24)
- AIDAA's €1,000 bounty is real

ROGER_WILCO: u techto clanku me vzdy napadnou dve veci. Nejprve mi je lito, ze musi vyjit studie k takove samozrejmosti, ze je to skodlivy nebo ze to ma dopad. Je to psany, jak kdyby to bylo pro lidi, co si mysli, ze jsme veci. A pak jakmile narazim na ten casovej odhad, tak si predstavuji, jak to zase bude ignorovano.