We are here to say enough, it is time that hunters are protected from these infamous attacks. Six hooded animal rights activists against an 81 year old, shot before the escape of these criminals. Among the first to be close to the hunter of Almenno San Bartolomeo, attacked in the course of his regularly carried out activity, was the President of Federcaccia Bergamo Lorenzo Bertacchi, who thus commented on what happened with a firm stance.
“The attack on Lino Pessina is news that leaves dismay. Six “heroic animal rights activists” kicking and punching an 81-year-old man it is a snapshot of the drift of our days and speaks volumes about who the violent are in the ongoing cultural clash between the overflowing animal rights activists and the ferocious hunters. It is not acceptable for groups of people to walk around organized in bands looking for hunters or fishermen to sneak up to get them to bite into a provocation or worse, to move on to physical aggression. Two years ago a young man was attacked at the Casazza Fair. Last year in Cremona to a volunteer during the capture of the hares the peaceful animalists cracked a vertebra hitting him, now the attack on Mr. Pessina.
And in between various damages, insults, threats. And with the press that never misses an opportunity to distort the hunt and the rules that so rigidly regulate it. We remind you that hunting is a legitimate, rooted and useful activity, not only from an economic point of view, to the whole of society and it is unacceptable that animal rights activists are people who can feel legitimated or justified in shaming and now physically attacking. Federcaccia Bergamo will give full legal support to its hunter card and is confident in the effective identification of these six offenders, because these are not "heroes of our day" but mere criminals. And he hopes that good people open their eyes, find out about how we really go hunting, and only then draw conclusions, aware that on the other side behind the slogans in favor of animals there is only hatred. towards man ".