Poaching accident: Irpinia, a poacher is wounded by his own rifle but invents a story that does not convince the Carabinieri; three other poachers also reported.
Solved in a few hours the yellow of the wounding of a man in the mountains of Volturara Irpina. Yesterday afternoon, the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Montella intervened because a thirty-year-old from Volturara, "while walking in the woods" (so he reported), had been drawn by "stray buckshot" probably fired by poachers who were carrying out a hunting trip of poaching within the Parco dei Monti Picentini area. For the injuries sustained, the man was immediately transported to the Emergency Department of Avellino and, subsequently, transferred to Naples at the Vecchio Pellegrini Hospital where he had undergone a delicate surgery on his left arm. The immediate and uninterrupted investigations of the Volturara Station and of the Carabinieri of the Operational Unit of the Compagnia di Montella had not left out any leads and had been developed at 360 degrees, also taking into consideration the hypothesis of an attempted murder. The most accredited, however, from the first moment, seemed to be that of an accident during the poaching activity in which the injured person would also participate.
Also comforted by some information points deriving from in-depth knowledge of the territory and local realities, the Carabinieri had identified the place of the accident where, during a first inspection, they had found traces of the wounded's blood and in correspondence with them some cartridges unexploded and electrical tape, probably used to set up poaching traps. All the material had been seized by the military.
Furthermore, during the night, the Carabinieri had been able to identify the four people who had participated in the poaching expedition, including the one injured and ascertained the dynamics of the accident according to which the thirty-year-old, while attempting together with his accomplices to illegally shoot down some boar in the protected area, he slipped and a shot went off from his rifle that wounded him in the left arm.
Therefore, having ascertained the poaching activity, all the identified characters were reported in a state of freedom for the exercise of the hunting activity in a protected area, outside the allowed hours and outside the pre-established days and without any title for the authorization for the possession of weapons and related ammunition which were then seized. In addition, the wife of one of the poachers got into trouble who, together with her spouse, declared falsehood to avoid ascertaining the facts. For this reason both were reported for "aiding and abetting".
4 December 2014
Source: IrpiniaOggi