Emmanuel Bennati, National Vice President of Arci Caccia, and Regional President of Arci Caccia Umbria, replies to an interview with his Umbrian counterpart from Hunting Federation:
Dear Director,
we had the pleasure of reading an important interview with the President of FIdC Umbra Simone Petturiti on the management of hunting in Umbria. We hope that, having been called into question, there will be the possibility of a forum for a necessary response. President Petturiti focused on unitary relations in Umbria and, as far as we are concerned, let us be given the possibility of a brief reflection on the merits. Would we have defended politics in the hunt? We did not want to have commitments in favor of politics, when others did it in the electoral campaign and we speak of the most, best of all, in the Umbrian hunting landscape. The word itself says the field of cultural associations of which we are part.
What we have not done is chase them in the electoral campaign misleading promises of which the other hunting associations have made themselves, let's say with benevolence, spokespersons, or rather amplifiers. Then came the facts: let's talk about the hunting calendar for hunting the "turtle dove", which is only possible with prior notice conservation and collection plan. This will always be the case for migrating species. The government has not implemented the guidelines proposed by the Conference of Regions. Guilty. It is the fault of ISPRA, it could have been done differently: copy the Puglia Region for example. There FIdC and other associations have proposed taking the responsibility to do the same? No.
That it is a conspiracy of the magistrates who would have caught, as in all of Italy, proposals that did not take into account the conservation needs of the species? We who had not shouted "vote Antonio", and do not even think we are washing our conscience with demagogy, have argued that it was preferable not to put the hunting season at risk of suspension. And so it went well. We wonder, in addition to the blah blah blah on the calendar, if these associations have gone to the lawyers, if they have occupied the Regional Council? We have escaped, we have not seen them. But they can tell how many they said…. empty. Misleading advertising, in order to steal the good faith of the hunters, we do not do it and seek, on the other hand, correspondence in the choices of hunters who become aware of the problems much more than the sellers of discounted cards imagine.
This testimony, of the low value, that the managers give to the association and its role. You sell the insurance, which thank goodness it's mandatory, because certain associations would otherwise not exist. On the issue of boar damage contributions and on the calendar, the roads split simply because we did not share the strategy or even less. the person to whom the responsibilities are to be attributed; or was the question only instrumental? Looking for the commissioner of ATC 1 and 3 and then firing on the hunting calendar? At this point, we believe it is appropriate to rediscover a common sense of realism and sincerity. We demand a plural unitary federation, where we will vote in favor when we are convinced and against if we think otherwise. Won't you be frightened by the democratic confrontation that we believe hunters appreciate? We want to stimulate it, in a context of autonomy and freedom of expression, regardless of the positions of the parties, even when they promise unrealizable solutions.