Genoa: The Greens want to subject the hunters to drug testing
Checked, taxed, certified and, now, you also want to put them in the center of the viewfinder. To point the weapon of bureaucracy against them this time was the leader of the Greens Angelo Spanò who asked for drug checks for those who take the shotgun in the woods of the hinterland. These are not, for heaven's sake, allegations about alleged drug dealers. God forbid. But only to unleash the provincial policemen, the brigades and the hunting guards who control our small mountains and our extensive hills, a little like carabinieri and road agents do with Saturday night drivers.
Yesterday in the provincial council the representative of the environmentalists presented a motion, which will be discussed in the coming weeks, in which the Repetto junta is officially asked to subject the hunters, in addition to the normal controls already in place concerning the hunting activity, to alcohol test "With the limits set by the highway code" and drug testing. It is not credible that the hunters smoke a few joints before taking up the shotgun or the over-under at dawn. But that even you want to punish them for a glass of good wine while they wait for their prey in the cold of the Genoese moor, seems a little exaggerated. «For drugs - insists Spanò - the presence of narcotic substances in the blood will have to result in the definitive withdrawal of the hunting license and the confiscation of the rifle. For alcohol, if drunk is detected, the hunting license must be definitively suspended for at least six months and the rifle confiscated. If the limit is more than double or if the state of intoxication has been repeated, the license must be permanently suspended ". It's not all. Spanò also asks that holders of the hunting license be subjected annually to visits certifying their psychological state of health and non-dependence on alcohol, drugs and psychotropic drugs. In short, a big thing. There is nothing to say.
“There is no law - the councilor Renata Briano smiles - that discriminates against hunters from other citizens. We take Spanò's proposal only as a provocation ». “If on the one hand we have to give - adds the commissioner Fossati - more resources and means to the provincial police for checks, on the other we have to do drug and alcohol tests to those who drive the car and not to those who go hunting. On the annual psychological certificate for hunters I can only take it as one of the many jokes of the Greens ».
Source: The Newspaper