Hunting and Fauna: Trieste, a woman attacked by a wild boar in her own home again, via the discharge of responsibility between the Region and the Province for the compensation requested by the victim.
It all began about three years ago when a 35-year-old woman at the time was attacked by a boar inside the garden of his house in San Giovanni. The woman was in the house when she heard the dogs barking nervously so she decided to go out into the garden to see what was happening; it was precisely in this circumstance that a wild boar suddenly emerged from the vegetation, overwhelming the woman and fleeing. Following the attack, the woman suffered an "L" wound of about twenty centimeters in the inner part of her left thigh that deeply tore her flesh forcing her to spend twenty-five days in hospital undergoing three surgeries and various plastic and aesthetic surgeries. . The woman at this point decided to take legal action against the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the Province of Trieste, probably the first of its kind, aimed at seeking compensation for the damages suffered by first attempting an out-of-court solution that was not successful, after which, from 2014, the case went to the civil judge to request compensation for both medical expenses incurred and for permanent physical and purely aesthetic damages caused by the aggression of the ungulate.
The legal action was directed against the Region and the Province since it is up to these bodies, for regulatory and administrative competence, to control wildlife but the problem arises from the regulatory vacuum as the issue is atypical from a jurisprudential point of view. . The point of the matter is that it was a person and not things that suffered the damage; in fact, the legislation provides for compensation for damage in agriculture and therefore to crops, livestock and means of work in the fields but not to the people. It therefore ends up in the bed of the so-called alleged non-contractual liabilities.
In particular, the competent authorities are criticized for an evident inadequacy of the surveillance of the wild boar population of the regional and Trieste territory in particular, as well as the inadequacy of the measures necessary to prevent wild animals from getting too close to inhabited areas in certain food; recently the wild boar issue has exploded in a bitter city debate on the measures to be taken to block the arrival of wild boars from the woods and contain the increase in wild boar populations, among which the most accredited includes killing with a go-ahead for hunters announced by the regional councilor von in charge of hunting Paolo Panontin especially in the light of the latest incident that occurred in Longera where a large boar attacked a pensioner and killed his shepherd dog from Ciarplanina.
Finally, among the other measures envisaged, any sterilization campaigns as well as the cleaning of the woods and the fencing of civil borders, not forgetting the tightening of the penalties for those who are caught supplying food to wild boars, generating a kind of fake domestication.
(June 1, 2015)
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