Mattia is 13 years old and the other morning he was going to school by bicycle, as he does every morning when the weather is nice and it starts to get hot. He had left shortly after 7 from Marentino (province of Turin) and he pedaled quickly towards Andezeno where there is the middle school he attends. In a downhill stretch from the side of the road between the grass and the bush they jumped out two large boars that overwhelmed him. Mattia fell off his bicycle doing a flight of 4 meters: "He was afraid that they would attack him, he wanted to escape but because of his injuries he could not get up - says his father Cristian Boniscontro, municipal councilor in Marentino - Luckily they escaped».
They were terrible moments: "A car arrived, a Red Cross volunteer was driving who helped my son - continues Boniscontro - He was taken to hospital, the prognosis is 15 days: he has six deep abrasions and a wound on his arm which required 5 stitches ». The incident brings to the fore the problem of wild boars, the subject of protests by farmers also on Sunday at the Giro d'Italia. «The plan of the Metropolitan City has proved a failure - thunders the mayor of Marentino Bruno Corniglia - The hunters have their hands tied and the wild boars destroy all crops. In addition to creating security problems ». Coldiretti also points the finger at the Metropolitan City strategy: "The area of the accident - says Fabrizio Galliati, president of Coldiretti Turin - is part of the repopulation and capture areas, areas closed to hunting that have the purpose of favoring the production of sedentary wildlife, to favor the stop and reproduction of migrants. These areas have now totally lost the sense for which they were designed. In the document that established that of Marentino, the aim was to favor the reaffirmation of the hare and partridge, while today they have become safe areas for the proliferation of the wild boar that has occupied and devastated everything "(The print).