The Italian Hunting Syndicate on the service of Striscia la Notizia on poaching in Lebanon, broadcast on 30 October 2014, requests its rectification.
Below is the request from the Italian Hunting Union:
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Subject: Request for rectification and specification pursuant to art. 8 Law no. 47/1948 and succ. mod. as well as pursuant to Law no. 223/1990 of Edoardo Stoppa's reports aired during the Striscia la Notizia program, on Thursday 30 October 2014 entitled "Poachers in Lebanon".
The writer Barbara Mazzali, in her capacity as spokesperson for the Italian Hunting Union (SVI), based in Quarto (NA), cap. 80010, via Pantaleo, n ° 99, with this deed and with reference to the television broadcast referred to in the object, it informs you - in the context of self-protection - as follows. The images aired during Eduardo Stoppa's three services show a reality that has nothing to do with the hunting world. Here it is important to remember that hunting in Italy, as well as in Europe, is governed by laws that regulate this "activity" well and that everything that appears in the aforementioned services is strongly and decisively condemned by us Hunters.
What we do not like and what creates indignation is hearing the word "Hunt" in the aforementioned services since everything captured by your cameras cannot in any way be compared to Ars Venandi. In fact, such behaviors in our country are prosecuted with a very specific crime: "POACHING", which does not belong to the world of hunting and which the hunters themselves, as has already happened several times, report to the Authorities.
Therefore, we ask you to read the following, pursuant to and for the effects of the Press Law, in order to guarantee all viewers the opportunity to understand in full freedom and democracy that all this does not belong to us. "WE HUNTERS DEFINITELY CONDEMN WHAT HAPPENS IN LEBANON, THAT IS, EPISODES OF PURE POACHING, AND WE CLEARLY GET DISTANCES FROM IT BECAUSE NONE OF THOSE IMAGES CAN BE LINKED TO THE HUNTING THAT IS EXERCISED IN THE REGULAR COUNTRY" .
For all of the above please provide, within 10 days by giving notice to the writer, to this specification as as it went on air, the service has contributed further to defame and damage the image of a category, that of hunters, composed of honest people who have long been subjected to a campaign of defamation by people who do not understand the true meaning of a millenary activity and today managed with very strict laws and exercised by citizens - taxpayers proud of having an immaculate criminal record.
Once the term assigned to you has passed in vain, we will proceed as per law.
Regards
Barbara Mazzali
SVI spokesperson
Mauro Panella
SVI President
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(November 4, 2014)
Italian Hunting Union