Federfauna, “crazy regulation in Mantua, we will appeal with Federcaccia”; the new regulation on animals adopted by the municipality continues to create dissension.
Prohibitions on everything (even glue for mice or crushing a mosquito), fences for dogs more than double the size of a hotel room, excessive power and money for animal rights activists, all in defiance of the principle of the hierarchy of sources of law. There could only be the Lav animal rights association behind the Animal Regulations adopted last January 12 by the Municipality of Mantua. FederFauna decided to intervene against the insane measure, accepting the invitation to resort to the TAR launched in recent days by Hunting Federation and extended to all holders of legitimate interests. Federcaccia has announced its appeal because the Regulation, absolutely not taking care of the fact that the hunting it is not the competence of the Municipalities, but the National, would like to ban hunting and any form of capture or killing of birds throughout the municipal area. But this is not the only absurdity contained in the text that the Municipality of Mantua has agreed with the Lav, which would concern "all species of vertebrate and invertebrate animals", therefore also mice and rats, flies and mosquitoes, worms and cockroaches, crabs, etc ...
There would be, just to name a few, the ban on scientific research with animals (including mice and gnats), their breeding and sale, the ban on the breeding of fur animals, the ban on selling animals at fairs and unsustainable requirements for selling them. in the exercises, the prohibition of the use, possession and sale of even mouse glue ... On the other hand, fences for dogs should have an area of at least 19 square meters, provided that they can be guaranteed at least three daily trips, otherwise the fences should have an area of at least 152 square meters be at least eight times higher, that is 8 square meters (will they know in Mantua that the minimum size of a hotel room for people is XNUMX square meters?!…).
According to this regulation, a citizen could even be banned from possessing animals, only because he has pending proceedings: that is, before a Court condemns him, the municipality could do so, or rather a commission formed by 2 representatives of the municipality, one of the ASL and 3 of animal rights activists: two of the associations, plus one of their veterinarians ... FederFauna had considered it almost a joke the presentation in 2013, by Brambilla and her friend Alessandro Cattaneo, at the time acting as president of ANCI, of a "regulation -type "animal rights for the municipalities, after so many sentences of the various TARs of Italy that have suspended and then quashed these types of administrative acts, if only because they are in contrast with the national regulations in force on the subject.
Unfortunately, the case of Mantua shows that it was not a joke, but a dangerous threat to Democracy and the pockets of citizens. It will be necessary to obtain yet another new sentence, with the hope that the Justice will also condemn the municipality to pay the costs of the proceedings and the damages, and that this will retaliate against its animal rights advisers, who interpret the laws for their own use and consumption and would like to be the masters in accordance with their ideology! ...
(March 2, 2015)
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