The Lombard hunting world is in chaos. The nefarious strategy of the regional officials of the Hunt Office to break up the administrative act of the Council of the Lombardy Region with which the hunting station was to be opened, the so-called Calendar Resolution, in several sections led to the suspension of hunting by the Milan Tar, which accepted an appeal from animal rights activists. The stain, the shame of this choice will always remain in the curriculum of these officials even if the doubt begins to arise that many of them consider this story a medal, something to be proud of, a goal achieved rather than a defeat. The reaction of the hunters from Brescia but also from Lombardy was for some angry and for others astonished and despondent.
There are those who spontaneously demonstrated, for example in Torbole at a meeting of the Hon. Matteo Salvini or in Milan at the end of the Lega Nord election campaign, but then there are hunters who feel offended and humiliated by the stop to the hunting season they even deny the commitment for the demonstration on Friday 1 October still in Milan. Anger and despair, screams and silence, insults and resignation. Some regional councilors have asked for the resignation of the councilor Fabio Rolfi, others of the officials who advised the councilor.
We asked ourselves last Thursday that whoever made a mistake payprofessionally, with the change of office: the General Manager, the Head of the Hunting Office, those who have devised and endorsed this strategy. We could call them the creators of the operation "Cement lifebuoy": in more than one meeting they reassured the hunting associations claiming that if the acts were challenged in front of the TAR, the hunters could have counted on the "life jacket" of the Regional Law nr 17 of 2004, a law that for years and years has allowed us to experience serene seasons far from appeals to the Tar. But evidently, as the president of Federcaccia Lombardy lawyer Lorenzo Bertacchi, in the Region the life jackets of the Hunting Office are made of concrete.
Then there are articles in the Lombard newspapers that attack some regional councilors, especially Floriano Massardi who on the one hand is defined a frequenter of shady characters, it would be an unidentified poacher from Valle Camonica and on the other hand he is mocked, reporting his declarations to a dinner of hunters, declarations that all the hunters from Brescia share. in conclusion a more finished uproar, a jumble of rumors, proposals and accusations that on the one hand we share but which also leads us to reflect: what will remain of these days? Will we be able to solve something? Or will our strength be further downsized?
The political will of neglect the hunting activity and the management of the Lombard fauna heritage, which we recall, the State has entrusted to the Regions. In the face of hundreds of regional employees of the Agriculture Department, we do not believe the employees of the Hunting Office will reach 10. Many jobs are outsourced because there are no resources inside. When some projects are partially carried out inside the structure, see the Guidelines of the Galliformes, you realize that they don't work, that they are inapplicable. At the hearings at the TAR, if the lawyers of the hunting associations such as our President Bertacchi are not constituted, the lawyers of the Legislative Office do not go beyond a mere defense of the Office. The story of the suspension of the hunting calendar finally shows that the officials, among other things, very well paid, they did not spend too much of their time in planning the “Cement Lifebuoy” operation.
All of these are political choices! From Saturday in all probability the hunt will begin without further interruptions, the 98% of hunters will temporarily forget what has happened, the animal rights activists will go on to toast for the success obtained and, if a miracle does not happen, nothing will change in the Lombardy Region Offices, the commissioner will remain in his place, the head of the Office will also not to mention the General Manager. So how will the hunting associations behave in the future? Will they have to continue to collaborate to never be heard? Or will they have to change their strategy, and if so, how? These are not trivial questions: keyboard lions and Monday thirteenists will surely have the answer ready, but always later. The hunting world, the managers, those who want to build and do not destroy, it will be better if they meet soon to try to draw a common line.