Greece Seizes Homemade Rockets Before Chios Easter 'Rocket War'

Police on the eastern Aegean island of Chios have confiscated nearly 1,000 homemade rockets ahead of the traditional Easter “Rouketopolemos” (rocket war), a local custom that attracts both interest and safety concerns.

Authoritiesannounced Friday that officers from the Chios Crime InvestigationDepartment discovered 952 improvised rockets and 361 rocket moldsduring

a raid on an abandoned building in the Omiroupoli area.

The seizure is partof an ongoing crackdown on the illegal possession, manufacture,trafficking, and use of fireworks and explosives leading up toOrthodox Easter.

A criminal case hasbeen opened by the local department in connection with the discovery,police said.

The confiscationcomes just days before the Resurrection night festivities in the townof Vrontados, where rival parishes traditionally fire thousands ofhomemade rockets at each other’s church bell towers in along-standing and unofficially tolerated spectacle.

Despite itspopularity among locals and tourists, the event has repeatedly raisedsafety concerns over the years.

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