“You cannot die on the street in the third millennium, in a civilized country, from a clash with a herd of wild boars. Nor continue to pretend nothing has happened by not addressing a well-known problem that is now one of public safety and security: that at least my husband's death was not entirely in vain ”. These are strong words, full of pain but also of anger, those of Mrs. Angela, the wife of Luigi Turco, Gino as everyone called him, the agricultural entrepreneur of Hvar (Foggia) who lost his life at the age of only 59 in the night between 10 and 11 March on State Road 693, in the territory of San Nicandro Garganico, due to an accident that cries out for revenge: his only "fault" is to have come across the his Fiat Panda in a herd of ungulates, one of the many that scurry around the area, while crossing the road, and, further misfortune, to have suddenly found them in front after a curve, without any possibility of braking in time to avoid them. As is sadly known, the car overturned with the collision and ended up against a rocky wall: a tremendous impact that left no way out for the appreciated and late entrepreneur, or rather a farmer as he liked to be called because his "business ”, Carried on with passion with his wife and two children, was the land. His loved ones, still in shock from the tragedy, are keen to thank everyone for the countless certificates of esteem for the person and condolences that have reached them in recent days and for the strong stances to invoke interventions in order to deal with the fauna emergency. wild and, in particular, the proliferation of wild boars, whose management is the responsibility of the Region which must also answer for the damages, as confirmed by a recent sentence of the Supreme Court, putting an end to the continuous blameworthiness between institutions and clarifying that compensation must always be requested for the precisely to the Regions, which will then eventually apply to other subjects where they have delegated the relative competences to third parties, for example to the Park Authorities. The dramatic story of Turco was even brought to the attention of the Senate by the parliamentarian and friend Francesco Bruzzone, "we are on the side of Gino Turco and not of the wild boars" said the honorable; Maura Di Salvia, president of the “Michele Di Salvia” association that deals with road safety, has urged the convening of a technical table in the Prefecture; the president of the Park Community, and mayor of Carpino Rocco Di Brina, in agreement with the president of the Gargano National Park, Pasquale Pazienza, formulated an official request for an urgent political-technical table in which "Puglia Region, National Park of Gargano and the other competent institutions can confront each other to take quick and precise commitments in stopping the uncontrolled presence of wild boars on the Gargano ". But now Luigi Turco's family expects facts and answers, not only from political and administrative institutions, but also from justice, because that of the entrepreneur was the classic "death foretold", and it is the most indignant aspect. Even if you want to rely on official data and statistics, just scroll through the recent "Wild boar monitoring and management plan in the Puglia region" created by the Department of Biology of the University of Bari, as part of an agreement between all territorial hunting areas. provincials and the Region itself, to understand the consistency of the phenomenon, starting from the number of specimens counted, 1604, a figure also referred to June 2020. The road accidents caused by ungulates recorded in Puglia from 2009 to part of 2021 were as many as 331, 95 of which in Foggiano, but it is only the tip of the iceberg, of the most serious with injuries: the vast majority, those limited to damage materials to vehicles are often not even reported. And, above all, as regards the province of Foggia, the exponential increase in claims from 2019 to 2020 (last year fully monitored), from 24 to 34, immediately catches the eye, and from the geolocation it emerges just as clear, as indeed it was predictable, the high concentration of events in the Gargano sector. In short, a well-known and locally proven emergency. "You cannot wash your hands claiming to have put up signs" continues the wife of the entrepreneur, alluding to the answer given two years ago by Anas, the managing body, to the parliamentarian Marialuisa Faro who had asked for clarification on the management of fauna wild just about the state road 693. "The company has provided to signal the potential danger to users through the installation along the entire SS 693 of specific vertical signs with warning signs for wandering wild animals", replied Anas, then arguing that on the state road, as secondary type C extra-urban infrastructure, marginal fences would not even be envisaged. "I wonder - complains the wife of the victim - how danger signs on a high-flow road, all curves and with a speed limit of 110 km / h can be enough: my husband went much slower, he had a small car, but it was not enough for him to save himself ”. Turco's family members, through the Puglia Area manager Sabino De Benedictis, have relied on Studio3A-Valore SpA, a company specialized at national level in compensation for damages and in the protection of citizens' rights, to be assisted in all activities aimed at pursuing compensation process and expert and technical support - the Firm will make its best experts available - to the criminal lawyer appointed by the family, the lawyer Aldo Maria Fornari, to follow the preliminary investigations. The Public Prosecutor of Foggia, through the Public Prosecutor, dr.
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