Poaching: Piacenza, two poachers were caught by the Provincial Police hunting hares at night with a 22 cal. Carbine.
This time, two men, a 50-year-old resident of Carpaneto Piacentino and a 20-year-old resident of Gropparello, ended up in the network of the Provincial Police of Piacenza, accused of poaching. The two men, on the night of a few days ago, were responsible for the killing of one hare of restocking and capture area located on the hills between Carpaneto, Celleri and Travazzano. Specifically, at 23 pm they were noticed while they were practicing hunting near a stable, firing with a 22 gauge carbine equipped with precision optics and subsequently from the checks carried out, a killed hare was also found. The staff of the Provincial Police, after having contested the shooting, proceeded to seize the shotgun and the shot down hare. They were both reported on the loose for having, in competition, practiced hunting during a period of general closure, at night, in the restocking area and capture with an unauthorized weapon. At the expense of the only fifty-year-old owner of the weapon, also the crime of carrying in a public place or open to the public of a common firearm 22 caliber not allowed and hunting without being in possession of the appropriate license, with killing and apprehension of fauna wild, an offense that also involves the most serious crime of aggravated theft to the detriment of the State.
At the end of January in Settesorelle in the municipality of Vernasca a man was denounced because he was hunting ungulates with a trap consisting of a fence with a guillotine closure capable of capturing several specimens at the same time. Similar case in the municipality of Alseno, in February 2014, where a Bresciano was denounced on the loose. Last November two hunters were reported to the Judicial Authority for using electroacoustic calls banned for hunting migratory birds. In addition, there were several high penalties for administrative offenses and violations of hunting regulations.
Also this hunting season, which has just ended, has seen the Provincial Police, committed with men and means, to the constant control of the territory in order to prevent and suppress crimes against the fauna. The intervention of these days confirms the will of the Provincial Police to ensure, on the one hand, the protection of increasingly less populated rural mountain and hill areas, and on the other, the contrast to the phenomenon of poaching, due among other things to the increase of the wooded or uncultivated surface with consequent massive presence of wild ungulates, roe deer, wild boar, red deer and fallow deer capable of attracting the attention of the always unfortunately numerous poachers.
(February 26, 2015)
Source: PiacenzaSera