Wild Boar Hunt in Maremma: Regularly authorized hunters who today find themselves overwhelmed by a questionable interpretation of the law. And in reality the question concerns 600 or perhaps 700 people from Trentino.
In recent days, both in the national press and in the local press, with more or less accuracy in the information, the news that 48 Trentino hunters were heavily sanctioned for hunting in Tuscany and even reported. On some occasions the Trentino hunters have been described as "crafty" in obvious bad faith ... while the reality is quite different.
That sanctions have been imposed on some Trentino people who have practiced hunting in Tuscany is true, but it is equally true that they had done so. on the basis of regular permits issued by the competent authorities in that Region and with a regular card issued by the Autonomous Province of Trento.
The question is, instead, that at present, it is still unclear whether these authorizations could legitimately be granted or not. Il problem is legal and arises from the difficulties of coordinating the provisions of the Trentino hunting regulations (Provincial Law no. 24/1991) with those of the national framework law (L. 157/1992) issued a year later.
Without going into complex legal details, we can say that for a hunter from Milan or Rovigo it is not a problem to hunt in other regions, while for a Trentino, according to the restrictive interpretation of the laws that led to the aforementioned sanctions, this would not be possible.
In the case emphasized by the press, therefore it is certainly not a matter of crafty Trentino people hunting wild boars in Maremma without the necessary authorizations .. hoping to get away with it, as it is read. But of Trentino hunters who in perfect transparency and good faith have requested and obtained a regular hunting permit there and today they are at risk of heavy sanctions, due to an interpretation, which is already heavily criticized, of the law. Law is it is not clear at all.
Indeed the phenomenon is much wider and affects several hundred people from Trentino who in the past years have formally requested and obtained hunting permits, in Tuscany and other regions, paid the due taxes and exercised the hunting activity in those places certain of being perfectly in order. Today they are at the center of judicial investigations (departed from the State Forestry Corps at the Trento prosecutor's office) have maybe already received fines and now they are anxious to see their firearms even suspended… due to coordination problems between the law of Trentino and that of the State.
Even more disconcerting is that even the Trentino customers of the Wildlife Hunting and Agrituristic Hunting Companies ended up in the "cauldron", despite the fact that the national law expressly provides for this possibility.
Given the complexity and breadth of the problem it is it is urgent to obtain a definitive clarifying answer, through an authentic interpretation, which eliminates the dispute at the root.
In this sense, the Trentino Hunters Association has for some time moved on a national level, both in political and legislative headquarters, garnering a substantial willingness to resolve this regulatory misunderstanding that gets many of our hunters into trouble. We hope this can happen in a very short time.
On the subject we have already published in the magazine Il Cacciatore Trentino n. 80 an authoritative opinion pro veritate by dr. Edoardo Mori, magistrate of the Supreme Court.
Gianpaolo Sassudelli
President of the Trentino Hunters Association