Poaching: Valsusa, two poachers were stopped by the voluntary Hunting Guards of the Province and Federcaccia while they were leaving the area of Chianocco (TO) with a roe deer shot down with a 22 caliber rifle.
In recent days, in the area of Chianocco, in the province of Turin, in the Bassa Valsusa, two poachers were surprised and stopped by the faunal - environmental agents of the Fauna and Flora Protection Service of the Province of Turin and by the voluntary hunting guards of the Federcaccia in the context of of a territorial control service to combat the phenomenon of poaching. In fact, at the first light of dawn the guards noticed two men returning from a poaching, presumably nocturnal, from the heights of Chianocco very populated by wild ungulates such as roe deer, deer and fallow deer; the two poachers were traveling on board a car and during the check the officers found the carcass of an adult female Roe deer just killed inside the trunk.
Furthermore, the two men, coming from Chianocco and Alpignano, were in possession of a .22 caliber carbine, whose use for hunting purposes is prohibited by law precisely because it is a type of small-sized weapon, easily concealable, very precise and not very noisy, generally used in poaching; during the check the weapon was found to still have a shot in the barrel and the two poachers were equipped with two powerful halogen lights used to dazzle the prey during night hunting.
As if that were still not enough, the two arrested characters were found to have no license to carry firearms, therefore they were reported on the loose to answer for the crimes of abusive carrying of firearms and hunting with prohibited means as well as administratively sanctioned for other violations. found in the regulations governing hunting activities; both the weapon with its ammunition and the killed animal and all the equipment found were confiscated.
November 19, 2013