A poaching hunter was arrested and reported during an anti-poaching operation by the Provincial Police on the Island of Procida.
Once again the criminals of poaching make people talk about themselves by throwing in the mud every effort made by honest hunters to spread and appreciate the culture of hunting.
Yesterday morning, September 30, 2011, a joint operation took place which saw the collaboration between the Provincial Police and the LIPU Hunting Guards-Zoofile, conducted on the island of Procida in the areas of Montagnone and Toccaneto in the island municipality of Serrara Fontana. .
During the night two mixed teams identified prohibited electromagnetic calls for hunting, better known with the name of "Phonophile", electronic devices operated by a timer reproducing the song of various species of birds, in this specific case the song of the quail.
After a brief stakeout, at the first light of dawn, the two teams of agents surprised two poachers who were preparing to poach. One of them, a young resident of Serrara Fontana, was immediately stopped while the accomplice managed to escape through the fields, thus losing his tracks.
The poaching hunter arrested was denounced in a state of freedom to answer for the crime of hunting on a day of hunting silence (Tuesday and Friday throughout the nation); the suspect both shotgun and ammunition were confiscated.
Police precedents for threats against the LIPU Guards are against the arrested person; in fact, it was discovered that already in December 2008, in the locality of “Punta Pizzaco”, the man verbally attacked two LIPU Hunting Guards, on guard duty, with offensive words and threats.
In this circumstance, the person in question had been sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment with suspended sentence; probably with the new denunciation he will have to serve all the sentence including the previous one.
The LIPU announces that the operations will follow one another for the entire period of the migratory passage, trusting in the collaboration of honest hunters so that in the common interest we can pursue the path of regularity and regulatory compliance in the hunting field.