The Regional President ARCI Hunting Puglia Giuseppe De Bartolomeo regarding the article published on the portal "Ilsipontino.net" in which statements by the manager of theSalt Lake Oasis issued to the ANSA agency to say the least defamatory, against hunters said: "Incredibly, the manager claims that the fire broke out in theOasis of Manfredonia (FG), would have been set by the hunters. This deduction is derived from the statement according to which the stake would be "malicious" and "set for hunting reasons", as reported by the ANSA agency. Unfortunately, the litany is always the same, hiding the true responsibilities behind ideological prejudices anti-hunt Taliban.
The ARCI Caccia Regionale disputes these statements with solid arguments and announces that it has already interested its legal department for protect the rights of hunters to any association adhering and all its members defamed by such inconsistent falsehoods for which the person in charge will answer before the Judicial Authority. We have full confidence in the investigators and in the judiciary and we reserve the right to stand up against the perpetrators, the real ones! The ARCI Caccia association, continues the Regional President, has strengthened its action to combat poaching, also intensifying its fire prevention activities through its volunteers, also in collaboration with the Carabinieri Forestali with whom a memorandum of understanding has been signed at national level.
Just to expose the nonsense and the groundlessness of the folkloristic accusations as well as the superficiality of the arguments brought in support of the arsonist's words, concludes President De Bartolomeo, it is emphasized that the fire took place in an oasis where hunting is prohibited and that always and everywhere on the territories crossed by fires it is not it will not be possible to hunt for several years. Who benefits from smoking? We seek and punish the guilty, the rest is miserable propaganda ”.