It ended today with the acquittal of all the accused "because the fact does not exist", before the Court of Brescia, the criminal proceedings opened against some officials and administrators of the Province, including the former president Pierluigi Mottinelli, the former commander of the Provincial Police Carlo Caromani and six others accused of wild boar management in violation of national rules. They had to answer in various capacities of environmental pollution, embezzlement, unjustified killing of animals and abusive slaughter; Caromani also of disclosure of office secrets.
«Although the consultants of the civil parties have duly described the serious environmental damage deriving from the numerical control of the wild boar organized with the modalities implemented by the accused in the absence of the prior involvement of Ispra, we take note of the acquittal sentence and wait to be able to read the motivations as soon as they will be published ", comments the Lav animal rights association which had formed a civil party (Giornale di Brescia).