Hunting: Catania, opening of the 2014 Hunting Season, the controls of the Carabinieri increase by implementing a plan to prevent accidents and poaching.
With the early opening of the hunting season to 1 September, the prevention plan of the Provincial Carabinieri Command of Catania was launched, extended to the whole Etna area, which, unfortunately, has already registered the first accidents; in fact, the first investigations are underway on the unpleasant episode of Licodia Eubea, which saw as the protagonist BG of 60 a hunter who, during a hunting trip in the "Ciappazza" district of that municipality, was drawn from a group of pellets that forced to resort to the care of the doctors of the Caltagirone hospital, fortunately getting away with only 20 days of prognosis. The activity of the weapon will be carried out through administrative controls (firearms license, various licenses and detention rules), prevention of the phenomenon of the theft of hunting weapons in homes, which especially in this period sees an important resurgence, increase in territorial control services in wooded areas to ensure the smooth running of hunting operations, not forgetting the factor of fires that could be caused by the fire of brushwood by hunters to find game.
In one of these services, the 49-year-old Antonino Salamone, from Biancavilla, was arrested in flagrante delicto, for detention and abusive carrying of common firearms with abraded registration number. The man, with the help of two other hunters, reported for aiding and abetting in competition, had tried to conceal a semi-automatic rifle, cal. 12, Browning brand with abraded serial number, accompanied by 39 cartridges, as well as illegally holding another shotgun cal. 12, brand Renato Gamba, in the care of his father-in-law who died in 1993.
(September 3, 2013)
Source: GazzettinOnline