Poaching and surroundings: Genoa, during the wild boar hunts they also shot other ungulates such as deer and roe deer.
The Provincial Police of Genoa, as part of the anti-poaching service, discovered a group of poachers who, with the excuse of hunting wild boars, also illegally shot roe deer, deer and other ungulates. After a series of investigations, in fact, the agents of the Provincial Police of Genoa discovered and reported the foreman and the hunters participating in the same expedition in the territory of the Municipality of Lorsica, on the borders of the repopulation and capture area of Monte Caucaso, protected areas populated as well as by wild boar, numerous roe deer and fallow deer and frequented by some wolf specimens, a species particularly protected by national legislation, but where hunting is allowed.
The agents, in plain clothes and with an owl car "because for some time - they tell the Provincial Police - it was suspected that the wild boar hunters of the area illegally killed fallow deer and roe deer in the course of normal hunting" noted the strange position of some hunters and above all of two vehicles. "It seemed made to art - say the protagonists of the operation - to hide from those who were on the provincial road what was happening beyond the cars, in particular what was being loaded on a van". The agents thus began to patrol the area, discovering not far away, in correspondence with a path, stains of fresh blood and deer hair.
Sure, at that point, that an act of poaching had been carried out, the men of the Provincial Police continued their search and near the home of the foreman of the wild boarists they found four hunting rifles in his car, not locked and locked. Once the owner was tracked down, in addition to the weapons left unattended, they had the roe deer illegally poached, already skinned and gutted, delivered. The foreman was charged with the crimes of hunting roe deer in a period of prohibition and omitted custody of firearms and ammunition and all members of the team present at the wild boar hunt on the day the roe deer was killed, were reported for participation in roe deer hunting in a period of prohibition.
"Poaching against roe deer in the east of the province of Genoa is particularly harmful from a naturalistic point of view - they tell the Provincial Police - because it slows down the natural process of expansion of the species from west to east and hinders its settlement."
15 December 2012
Source: Genova24