La Provincial Federcaccia of Bergamo commented the disturbance walk to hunting organized in recent days in view of the start of the 2018-2019 hunting season. Here is the text of the press release: The hunting season will open on 16 September. The organization in Bergamo of a "hunt disturbance walk" for the same day: the meeting is scheduled for 4,00 at the Malpensata square in Bergamo. The event is organized by the self-styled Collective “Resistance to the nanoworld”.
In particular, in Bergamo the organization explicitly refers to the "La Piralide documentation space". The leaflet reads verbatim that the demonstrators would like to be on the hunting grounds before the hunters, in order to be there before the first shot is fired. It is plausible that the demonstrators will go to fixed hunting stalks: however, some stalking around Bergamo city already in the past hunting season they were subjected to acts of vandalism (or rather of real acts of devastation). In the opinion of the writer, the organization of such a demonstration represents a danger to public order: it is well known that the most troubled demonstrators belonging to animal rights / vegan associations have often violent attitudes towards hunters and purposely seek physical confrontation through provocative attitudes.
Furthermore, the Regional Law 26/93 expressly provides that the deliberate disturbance of hunting is also sanctioned with an administrative sanction, without prejudice to the possible integration of hypothesis of crime. After all, hunting is an activity that is not only lawful, but is also the subject of special state and regional concessions upon payment of the related taxes, and it is therefore a matter of activity recognized and protected by the State: the violent impediment of hunting (and violence must obviously be understood in a broad sense, starting from the "picketing" of stalking and areas intended for hunting wildlife planning up to the deliberate and perpetrated disturbance) therefore certainly integrates the crime of private violence, as already held in other cases by the Public Prosecutor's Office, and, therefore, the organization of the event itself would be attributable to the hypothesis of the crime of instigation to commit a crime.
Without prejudice to the fact that people are invited to carry out behaviors expressly sanctioned also in an administrative way by the Regional Law 26/93: in fact it is as if a gathering of motorists were organized with the deliberate intent to circulate exceeding the speed limits or to pass with the red through the city streets. This conduct, together with the aims of the collective published on the aforementioned internet page (which go well beyond hunting disturbances), should also lead to fear that the "HUNTING DISORDER WALK", the following "LUNCH" and the final "ASSEMBLY - ANTISPECIST MEETING" they can turn into real seditious gatherings, once the declared hostility of the Resistance Collective to the Nanomondo to the established order.