More than ten years of waiting to get to three convictions, as well as prescriptions and acquittals. This is the final balance of the investigation conducted by Court of Trani to ascertain the behavior of some WWF volunteer hunting guards during searches of hunters. The checks had taken place in the northern area of Bari and the dispute was that of unorthodox methods as regards these investigations.
The defendants were eight, accused in various ways of aggravated continued private violence, manslaughter with death as a consequence of another crime, ideological and material falsehood, abuse of office, slander and aggravated injuries. The period examined, on the other hand, runs from 2003 to 2007. An agent of the Forestry Corps was sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment with a five-year ban from public office.
Two and a half years were inflicted on two volunteer hunting guards with the accusation of ideological falsehood. Other disputes fell into statute of limitations, while there was acquittal for the alleged falsified reports after death from a heart attack of an 82-year-old hunter. The Prosecutor of Trani had spoken of clearly persecutory intentions towards the hunters, to the point of "catching them" by any means.