Jovanotti’s seaside concert events extensively criticised by ecologists.

Italian singer Lorenzo Cherubini, higher often known as Jovanotti, faces accusations from environmentalists that his Jova Seashore Get together live performance tour is damaging the delicate ecosystem of seashores round Italy.

Forward of Jovanotti’s double-concert on the Muraglione seaside in Viareggio on 2-3 September, the general public prosecutor’s workplace in Lucca has opened an investigation for environmental harm, in response to the Corriere della Sera.

The probe pertains to the “destruction or deterioration of habitats inside a protected website”, the newspaper studies, and follows a criticism filed with prosecutors in Tuscany.

The case is towards “unknown individuals” and no names – for now not less than – are listed within the register of these underneath investigation, in response to the Corriere.

The transfer comes amid repeated warnings from environmentalists that the large-scale concert events have a devastating affect on the already fragile ecosystems on Italy’s seashores.

Ecologists say that flattening coastal areas round seashores and sand dunes compounds erosion dangers and damages the habitat of ground-nesting wading birds such because the fratino, or Kentish plover.

La Stampa revealed an open letter just lately with the title “Expensive Jovanotti, this time you’re mistaken”, by famous ecologist Mario Tozzi who wrote: “Concert events with 50,000 individuals are not sustainable by any pure system, particularly by our already compromised seashores.”

Jovanotti, 55, has defended his 21-concert sequence, which kicked off on 2 July and is resulting from finish on 10 September, hitting again at critics who he labelled “eco-Nazis” and “harmful mythomaniacs”.

The artist, who has 3.7 million followers on Twitter, says that every one his ‘JBP’ concert events have obtained the required approval from native, regional and nationwide authorities.

Jovanotti has additionally identified that the nationwide live performance sequence is backed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) which in flip has come underneath assault from environmentalists.

Because the tour continues and the controversy rumbles on, a number of politicians have come out in assist of Jovanotti, together with Matteo Salvini, chief of the right-wing Lega celebration, who wrote on Twitter: “Let the artists specific themselves and let the younger folks have their enjoyable”.

Bergamo’s centre-left mayor Giorgio Gori on Twitter stated attacking the Jova Seashore Get together had change into “the game of the summer season”, saying it was “typical of us: if anyone does one thing lovely, festive, that works, we have to discover a method to spoil the celebration.”