Lorenzo Bertacchi, provincial president of the Federcaccia of Bergamo, commented on the criminal proceedings of the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office on containment of wild boars. The president recalled how the only figures allowed to carry out the check alongside the Provincial Police they would be the agents of the State Forestry Corps, the agents of the local police with a hunting license and the owners and conductors of the funds with a hunting license and limited to the funds within their competence. There strict application of law 157/92 seriously jeopardizes the commitment of wildlife operators, who risk being challenged the exercise of hunting in a period of prohibition and the use of prohibited means, as well as in some cases the hunting in an oasis of protection and in any case in territory prohibited from hunting: disputes involving the suspension of the license, criminal penalties and, in the event of killing, substantial compensation.
Without forgetting the declared illegitimacy of the provision to leave the remains of the slaughtered garments to the operators, even if only by way of compensation for damages or reimbursement of expenses incurred. The clear-cut position of the Constitutional Court and the Brescian Public Prosecutor's Office, however, put an alarm on the possible insurance coverage (both for civil liability, for accident and for legal protection): if up to now the prescription of our Regional Law seemed to give ample guarantee for the operation of hunting policies also in place for the purposes of control activities, the illegality of these operations now considered peaceful according to the National Law could raise objections by the Insurance Company.
Bertacchi therefore invited its authorized members not to participate in control activities, begging the Management Committees and the Provincial Police to refrain from involving hunters and voluntary surveillance agents (even if they have a qualification as "wildlife operators") for containment interventions. According to the letter of Law 157/92, to Otter (expelled from the protected wildlife species) the rules of the law itself do not apply and, therefore, the relative interventions of containment, control and eradication would remain safe. The Lombardy Region and the Province of Bergamo were invited to intervene with the adoption of the appropriate administrative measures.