During the night, some animal rights activists released a wild boar captured a few hours earlier and locked up in a public park in Genoa, to be precise in the Villa Imperiale (Levante area, to be precise the San Fruttuoso district). The wild had been confined by the police, but the blitz of these people, who remained anonymous, allowed the escape after the chain closing the gate has been cut.
It is now assumed that the animal moved towards the woods of the Madonna del Monte. The agents had intervened following the report of the ungulate by some retirees. The boar was blocked by some barriers and the cops' goal was to capture him in a definite way with a lure and a cage.
Animal rights activists, however, intervened ahead of time, most likely in the belief that the animal would be killed (containment is not excluded by one of the latest municipal ordinances). Now the boar is free, just in the moment Ligurian farmers are raising their voices to ask for more interventions against the herds that are always a more danger for crops and citizens.