Rome 23 Nov. – “For over 10 months, the spread of African swine fever has been recorded in wild boar populations in the territories of the Piemonte and Liguria. Unfortunately, in the provinces of Alessandria, Savona and Genoa, the containment of the spread of the disease is not working: to date, no significant intervention has been started to depopulate the wild boar, the only effective tool for eradicating ASF. The only administrative act produced is the provision whereby even the specimens culled in Restriction Zone II with negative results in subsequent analyzes are taken to incinerators, thus prohibiting self-consumption, which is instead allowed for animals culled in Restriction Zone I.
An illogical decision, which leads hunters to have no interest in hunting or an ethical reason to proceed with the killings. Hoping that the disease will run its course is imprudent considering that this prediction has not come true, on the contrary, new specimens have been born with the risk of making the disease endemic in the area.
The hunters ask to be able to intervene to start the operations of depopulation of the wild boar obviously foreseeing the self-consumption for the animals that will have tested negative for the virus: for this reason, I have addressed a question to the competent ministry, in order to understand which interventions and actions are to be put in place to concretely limit the spread of ASF in this area".
This is what the Lega deputy Francesco Bruzzone declares.