We had always known that. But we had to fight for months to see our rights recognized. TO Graglia we could and we can to hunt. Regardless of what the mayor thinks, who prevented us from doing it with a senseless ordinance, the right to hunt was ours. And how! To say it, as well as the Regional Administrative Court, in the last month of June, now, there is also the Piedmont Region. All the institutions therefore pronounced themselves in our favor and against a pretext and absurd administrative action which, in the name of an alleged public safety never questioned, blocked the hunting area located near the valley school. From Turin in fact (ordinance number 33/2021) a detailed report has arrived in recent days on why a municipality cannot act so peremptorily in the name of an alleged emergency.
And even if this danger was somehow real, it was pointed out, the Municipality did not have the power to block the passage of hunters in the area near the school fence. Everything is explained in black and white by the regional director Paolo Balocco who, through a linear and unequivocal language, proved us hunters right, who have always supported the absurdity of the measure taken last autumn by the mayor of Graglia. An impulsive and unmotivated choice. A muscular action that, perhaps, wanted to scare us. But on the contrary, it saw us all united in defending our rights in all locations.
Of course, we were forced into legal costs and a great waste of time. Pity. We would have liked to dedicate these months to our hunting passion and, in the presence of serious reports, we would have engaged in a monitoring and control activity for any errors by any of our associates. In short, we would have preferred dialogue and confrontation rather than stamped papers, bureaucracy and threats. Hopefully these two important pronouncements, before the Tar now of the Region, serve as a warning to all those administrators in love with protagonism, who think of make yourself beautiful on the skin of others (in this case, of us hunters). We are always ready for a dialectical confrontation, but also to defend ourselves, if someone tries to put their feet on our head. (Guido Dellarovere - President of the FIDC provincial section of Biella - President of ATC-CA BI1)