We need an amnesty by Lombardy region and serves as soon as possible. The checks carried out by the SOARDA, the anti-poaching unit of the forest police are terrifying entire territories. Controls focus on the irremovable rings of live decoys despite Federcaccia Brescia having demonstrated, with an analysis on a sample of 1500 rings, which 74% differs from the tolerances declared by the same manufacturer of the rings. This situation is the result of the inertia of the Lombardy Region and its officials, since we recall that the rings are distributed by Foi and Amov on behalf of the Region to the hunters, although it has been shown that they are high in the measures in an embarrassing percentage. Already there Liguria region has prepared an amnesty last year, perfectly legitimate and legal, so does the regional councilor for hunting Fabio Rolfi.
Meanwhile, the hunting associations adhere to the event organized for tomorrow morning in Brescia it will start at 9.30 am from the parking of the Margherita d'Este center of via San Polo and will reach the parking lot of the Police Headquarters between via Bertoli via Donatello to protest against the control methods implemented by the Soarda. Below is the press release: "The Lombard Hunting Associations invite their members to participate in the parade and in the authorized event in Brescia for Friday 22 October starting at 9.30 in front of the Police Headquarters, organized to demand respect in control and inspection activities.
The checks carried out by the Carabinieri Forestali dei SOARD, usually accompanied by large numbers of volunteers, it seems that often exceed the limits of inspection activities commensurate with the types of crime sought and with the behavior of the controlled hunter - often only - who, at first frightened and intimidated by such a deployment of forces, he then feels the powerless victim of disputes to which he has no right of reply (not even in court). In the checks carried out by the hunters, unfortunately, one perceives a fervor that has little to do with the objectivity and measure that should be proper to the Police. This is singular when one evaluates the Brescia investigations on live recalls by parameterizing them with the commitment (barely perceptible) profuse to shed light on the acts of damage and violence suffered by hunters and - above all - to prevent further acts of violence.
Except in cases, although there will be, of the discovery of decoys equipped with visibly irregular and removable rings and which rightly must be the subject of a dispute, to date there are cases of seizures of reared and ringed in this same 2021 by the same controlled hunters, to whom even in some cases it has come to question not the irregularity of the ring (new and perfectly compliant with the measures and visibly not modified and absolutely irremovable), but that the call could not have been born this year , resulting in seizure. Except - for practice and to avoid having to keep the recall keeping it alive- following the seizure the ring is removed (by cutting it), the call released, and for the hunter it becomes definitively impossible to prove the regularity of the ring (now compromised) and to regain possession of the call. Unfortunately, an intimidating climate is being created in Brescia which also undermines the right and correct relationship that should exist between citizens and law enforcement deputies to controls: it has reached the point that hunters are afraid to go hunting.
The Hunting Associations are not opposed to the control activity, but believe that during the same it must always be borne in mind that the hunter is carrying out an activity that is not only lawful, but also the object of state and regional concession. Unfortunately, many hunters are beginning to think that respecting the rules is not enough to exercise their passion because by now they feel powerless in the face of the discretion applied in the controls which result in the seizure of live calls. legitimately held and used. Which, frankly, seems intolerable in a state of law, such as ours would pretend to be. On Friday the representatives of the Associations in the delegation will go to the competent Authorities, but in the procession and in the square it would be important the presence of many Hunters, gathered civilly and orderly, present to demonstrate with respect for the uniform that as citizens we have not only hunting, but in all our daily jobs.
The same respect that we would like the Police Forces to use towards us, as Citizens who are exercising an activity recognized by the State. " One wonders what politics is waiting for to intervene, the deputies and senators from Brescia, the regional councilors and all the institutional representatives in the face of this situation. Federcaccia Lombardia is verifying the possibility of providing free legal assistance to all those hunters whose live calls have been seized due to differences in the measures. If these excess measurements were to be in the order of tenths and hundredths of a millimeter Hunting Federation is evaluating the possibility of supporting hunters in the causes of claims for damages to the Lombardy Region on behalf of which the rings are distributed and which has never verified the congruity of the measures of the same. The event will start at 9.30 am from the car park of the Margherita d'Este center in via San Polo and will arrive at the car park of the Police Headquarters between via Bertoli via Donatello (Federcaccia Brescia).