Personally I was convinced that, with the resolution on Thursday September 23th, you would have at least tried to save what can be saved, but I was disappointed: and so are all the Lombard hunters who see that in Liguria, in Emilia, in the province of Trento, in Veneto and in Friuli (despite the LAC appeals in Veneto and Liguria sponsored by the same law firm that is sponsoring the appeal against the Lombard calendar) the hunt for turdidae, aquatic and sedentary turdidae is taking place regularly; not to mention the Province of Sondrio, which I believe is still part of the Lombardia!
As an administrative lawyer, I can only be disappointed and embittered in seeing how the regional offices in the past months have remained insensitive to any warning about the fact that, by approving the calendar 2 days before the opening, we would have found ourselves in the situation in which we find ourselves today, that is with a foregone suspension unheard of, altera parte, and certainly not due to technical deficiencies of the calendar (it will be discussed at the hearing). I am not a seer: simply every lawyer who practices administrative law knows when and why an unheard-of suspension can be triggered by a single decree of the President.
Arrived in September the only defense available were the conjurations. The unfortunate situation in which you put the Lombard Hunting down by writing the blackest page (and I fear it is not finished) is the result of precise decisions of the offices: whether it is incompetence, indolence, arrogance or antivenatory fraud equally serious is the fact that public officials have opted for a suicide strategy (for the Region) and homicide (for hunters) knowingly delaying the publication of a provision ready since the end of July up to two days before the opening. And with the paradoxical consequence of weakening the technical motivations that this year more than ever before accompanied the calendar choices.
I can't forget that the 2020/21 calendar (before we were overwhelmed by the chaos of the yellow / orange / red areas) was saved by the defense prepared in court by the FIDC, which the offices experienced as a sort of treason. And on that appeal, with me, the distorted versions of the offices have little hold: your officials seem to be purposely unaware that I was in the courtroom and that the defensive acts bore my signature. I ask you as a Lombard citizen: do the regional structures all work like Agriculture, which in 2021 brought fishing to its knees first and now hunting, while mountain farmers are now abandoned to their fate in the name of the wolf?
Will understand at this point too my concern for the preparation of the Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan, but also for the current hunting season: the Agriculture DG, at least as far as we are concerned, needs a profound organic restructuring. Given the above, I am formally asking you to meet with myself and the Presidents of the other Hunting Associations representing the 55.000 Lombard hunters by Friday 1 October, the date on which we will be in Milan with the Lombard hunters who they want to make their voices heard. On that occasion, if you have already received us in the meantime, I ask that a delegation be received in any case by a representative of the Bureau. Waiting for a prompt reply, I cordially greet (The Regional President of Hunting Federation - Avv. Lorenzo Bertacchi).