Vicenza farmers, supported by animal rights associations, promote a Class Action aimed at requesting payment for the damage that hunters would cause by entering private funds for hunting.
Thus a class-action action was born in Vicenza, the first of its kind, made up of about fifty farmers who ask the Province and the Region to be granted compensation for the damage caused to their private funds by hunters during the exercise of the activity. hunting.
The idea was suggested to the farmers (there was no doubt!) By the animal rights activists of the Vicenza Protectionist Coordination who, through a Milanese law firm, are proceeding with the initiative; although the idea may seem bizarre, the promoters are instead convinced of the legitimacy of the request and explain that they refer to the "National Framework Law No. 157 of 1992 on the protection of wildlife, homeotherm and hunting but in the province of Vicenza no landowner has ever given a penny of the contribution envisaged by the legislation ".
According to the provisions of the national law, if hunters pass through a farmer's land, which cannot be opposed, the farmer is entitled to compensation. But no farmer has ever received that compensation because the implementing rule is missing.
Continuing from the Vicenza protectionist coordination, "within this week the lawyers will deliver all the documentation for these first fifty landowners and the proposed bodies, provinces and regions, will soon have to find a solution to pay the amount due to the people who are forced to enter the hunters in their legitimate property, without however having any contribution ”.
Just the CPV spokesman, Renzo Rizzi, explained on the matter, “Some landowners have turned to the provincial administration of Vicenza asking for the payment of the contribution. The Province responded spades, postponing the request to the Veneto region, justifying this move with the lack of directives from the regional administration. If the payment for an easement is not paid, among other things imposed by law, it is logical that this easement will lapse, also and naturally in light of the fact that in no other European country is there an obligation to allow hunters to violate private property ".
The farmers involved have announced threateningly "If the Region or Province will not pay, we are ready to chase the shotguns from our land", and Rizzi, concluding in the wake of the farmers' statements, commented "I believe that what the farmers said is correct, namely that they will drive away the hunters who they enter private property without having the right to ".
In recent months, the issue had already been denounced by the animal rights activists of the Lac, the anti-hunt League and the Lav, the anti-vivisection League, in the meantime promoting an information campaign and forms to request compensation. “If all the Vicenza owners claimed to have the money they owe, the amount to be paid out is bankrupt, over 175 million euros. It is estimated that Palazzo Nievo will pay a debt of over 17 million euros for 2011 alone: that is, 70 euros per hectare made available in the hunting area. The hectares of "huntable" in the Vicenza area are in fact 250 thousand ".
3 October 2012
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