Acquitted for "The particular tenuousness of the fact". Thus ended the judicial affair that saw the former president of the Trentino Hunters Association, Charles Pezzato, in trouble with the justice system for a hunting sanction that remained on his desk for 52 days. The lawyer Roberto Bertuol, at the beginning of the hearing, immediately asked for an acquittal for harmlessness and his request was accepted so much that the 12 texts that had already been summoned to testify they were able to go home.
Thus an end was put on a story that from the judicial point of view had immediately appeared minimal but which had bounced on the news simply to the position of the accused who, in March of last year, had left the leadership of the association due to internal controversies. The dispute concerned a penalty that - according to the prosecution - had been delayed to favor a hunter. He had been surprised by a gamekeeper on 4 November 2015 to practice hunting without having pierced the card to signal the exit.
An administrative violation for which a fine of 102 euros is foreseen. The practice remained in Piebald's availability for 52 days. According to the accusation, the accused would have been late in transmitting the proceedings to the Province - despite a reminder from a secretary - to favor the fined shareholder. Even if this had happened, the judge considered the issue of such tenuousness that, by applying article 131 bis of the criminal code, the punishment of the subject. The Court of Auditors had already ruled out the fault.