This year the Befana anticipated Santa Claus, but for Piedmontese hunters… no sweets! The old hag, with a hooked nose and a pointed chin, in tattered clothes and riding a broom, is preparing to sail the subalpine skies with her bag full of coal. He has a face that we seem to know, a name… sweet, but no Rocher, Kinder, Mon Chéri or Pocket Coffee in his bag: just a lot of black blocks. And what would be the cause of the terrible punishment, the guilt, the prank committed by the 25.000 Piedmontese enthusiasts, all Italian citizens and voters, respectable people with criminal records and full-blown criminal records? Simple, having once again challenged the authority, but perhaps it would be better to call it "authoritarianism", of the regional council and its councilor for agriculture, hunting and fishing, which seem to gleefully not care about the sentences, ordinances or pronouncements of the Italian and regional courts or national, administrative or constitutional they are. Four victories out of four appeals presented, with the Piedmont Region always crashing into the judicial wall. On Tuesday 20 December, after having already passed the commission, the hallucinating regional law n. 219, the one with which the commissioner Ferrero proposes to subtract from the Piedmontese hunters as much as the TAR, with the ordinance n. 280 of 28/07/16, had returned to them: a dignified and fair hunting calendar, including eleven other species of ducks and migratory birds regularly hunted throughout Italy, but not in Piedmont. An unacceptable vulnus that lasted for over twenty years, making our region a unique case in the country, and perhaps also in Europe, so as to convince the Regional Administrative Court to recognize the full and legitimate reasons of the Piedmontese hunters.
Now it is thought of circumventing that ordinance by means of regional law, prohibiting the eleven species, and challenging what the Constitutional Court has repeatedly upheld, namely the impossibility for the regions to intervene by law on a matter, the Environment, and the huntable species fall under it, reserved exclusively to the Italian State. In addition, a judgment of merit is still pending by the TAR, which very soon will have to decide whether to bring to the attention of the Consult the similar case of ptarmigan, variable hare and lark, which ended in a scandalous linked to the financial of the past season, barbaric system used by the worst politics of our house to vote everything! We already know how it will end, with party discipline regulating the vote on December 20, but we can announce that we will not stand idle, and we will present new appeals, we will ask for justice, respect for national law. We really believed we had already seen everything, tasted the obvious animal-environmentalist inclinations of those who should manage and administer the hunting activity, and not instead try to destroy it, limit it drastically or reduce it to the mere control function for agricultural damage. caused by wild boar or roe deer; almost as if centuries of history and traditions could be erased with a swipe of the sponge, out of mere pique or personal vendettas. But no, because in Piedmont, where undeterred the worst administrator continues to do damage to agriculture, hunting and fishing since the regions were established, now we are really hitting bottom! If there is only one consolation for Piedmontese hunters is to know how nothing is eternal, remains motionless over time, and sooner or later, but we hope very soon, even this bad regional administration will pass the hand to others, it will go away. finally home! Meanwhile, the Holy Night has yet to arrive, and we are in time to write a letter to the man dressed in red, and who flies with a sleigh pulled by reindeer: "Dear Santa, this year don't bring us many gifts, give us a new one instead. and good hunting law, but especially make sure that a leap of dignity seizes our Piedmontese politicians, and these, or even one of them, understand how ... whoever loses must resign (Renzi docet!) and go home to celebrate family holidays; then stay there, without the anxiety of trying again. In short, give us Christmas back! "
Happy Holidays to all, no one excluded.
ANUU Migrators, Federcaccia Piemonte, Enalcaccia, EPS, ANL