On the institutional website of Corte suprema di cassazione it is possible to read the definitive ordinance, voted on December 15, 2021, with which the referendum request for lack of signatures. But the real surprises are in the text of the ordinance: the staff in fact certified that, contrary to what was declared by the promoters who presented the signatures on October 30, these were not already 520.000 as stated, but only 256.274 of which only 119.160 valid: therefore the invalid signatures were more than half (to be exact 137.114).
And even the signatures filed late and for which an extension had been requested would not have been enough: on 19 November in fact only another 22.681 were filed. To conclude, beyond the proclamations with which even the supporters of the referendum have been deceived, the signatures collected by were only 278.955 in 4 months (including digital), of which 137.114 invalid, 22.681 presented after the deadline and therefore not chargeable (and therefore not even verified) and only 119.160 valid.
We then read that the Supreme Court had given a deadline to the promoters to file briefs with which to perhaps convince them that the invalid signatures were valid and that in reality it was 520.000 (perhaps by photocopying the sheets they would have reached the number!): however we also read that no observations were sent to the Offices by the "brancaleonici" promoters. Perhaps the sensitivity of society on hunting is different from that which animalist newsboys want to give to drink (Source: Federcaccia Lombardy).