It was January 2017 when the forest police seized 229 'hybrid' specimens, that is crossbreeds between dogs and wild wolves throughout Italy, effectively nullifying illegal trafficking of wild dogs. Yesterday morning, for the owner of the farm, located in Serramazzoni (province of Modena), the prosecution asked for sentencing a a year while the defense asked for acquittal because the fact does not exist. The judge postponed for replies.
According to the accusations, in fact, the man would have crossed dogs with wolves and is responsible for the crimes of false ideology and fraud in the exercise of trade. The operation - coordinated by the prosecutor Francesca Graziano and completed by the CITES Service of Rome of the Carabinieri Forestry, Environmental Protection and Agri-food Unit Command (cutfaa) it had led to two hundred simultaneous seizures of dogs crossed with wolves and the relative pedigrees which falsely attested to their purity and value.
According to the findings they were 200 owners defrauded, citizens who, for various reasons, had paid for dogs up to 5 thousand euros. Wolves were illegally taken from the Carpathian area, Scandinavian countries or North America for be crossed with selected Czechoslovakian wolfdogs, to obtain a new genetic patrimony capable of giving rise to specimens of great beauty and more resistant to bone dysfunctions and malformations (Il Resto del Carlino).