Il Tar of Emilia Romagna rejected the appeal of animal rights associations on the containment of otters. It was rejected as "manifestly unfounded". The Mayor of the Municipality of Bondeno (province of Ferrara) Simone Saletti, who had decided to stand trial, won. Now a case opens in the history of jurisprudence. “I hope - Saletti said - that this sentence becomes a useful precedent for all my fellow administrators".
After the signing of the ordinance for the containment of nutria by the mayor of Bondeno, the animal rights associations Victims of Hunting and Animal Liberation had challenged the act asking for its effectiveness to be suspended. The first citizen of Ferrara had been very clear to that effect: “The trade associations, the farmers, the Reclamation Consortium are all showing me the danger of the uncontrolled proliferation of these pests.
I feel surreal that animal welfare associations based far or very far from the daily life of our territory take the right to decide what is a serious problem for us and what is not. It would be enough for anyone to just walk along ours rivers and canals to ascertain the uncontrolled proliferation of otters ”.