Poaching incident: Rome, in the park of Veio, a 38-year-old poacher died as a result of wounds caused by a rifle shot by one of the two accomplices subsequently arrested by the Carabinieri.
Tragic incident that occurred on the outskirts of Rome that in the night just passed cost the life of a 38-year-old neophyte poacher. The events took place in the middle of the night, just before 2.00 am, in the regional park of Veio between the consular Flaminia and Cassia where two Roman poachers aged 55 and 40 went to spend the night presumably hunting wild boars illegally. Together with the two poachers there was a 38-year-old friend who wanted to get closer to the "hunting" activity.
During the hunt, one of the two poachers, the 55-year-old, was stationed alone among the trees waiting for the passage of a prey without realizing the exact position of the two friends; shortly after, noticing a strange movement in the bushes and believing it could be an animal, the man would have fired a shot with his rifle loaded with "buckshot" cartridges right in the direction of the bush. Almost immediately the man realized that it was not an animal but his 38-year-old friend.
Given the "criminal" situation in which the two poachers found themselves, instead of immediately calling for help on the spot or themselves transporting the seriously injured friend to the nearest emergency room, they would have gone first to the home from the Veio Park of one of the two in order to get rid of the rifle and only later would they transport the dying friend to the emergency room of the “GB Grassi” hospital in Ostia. Once they arrived at the hospital, however, for the injured man, now lifeless, any attempt at resuscitation was in vain.
The Carabinieri of Ostia investigate the affair who, informed of the incident by the emergency room staff, arrested the two men accused of manslaughter and failure to rescue, also considering the fatal delay in the aid provided by the two to the injured friend; in addition, the two poachers will also have to answer for the exercise of the hunting activity outside the permitted hours and in a prohibited area (within the Regional Park of Veio). The inspection by the Carabinieri in the area of the accident is still in progress and an autopsy will be carried out on the 38-year-old's body in the next few hours; the two subjects, on the other hand, are currently locked up in the Roman prison of Regina Coeli.
20 October 2013