Here is the press release released by Sergio Berlato, national president of CONFAVI and ACR: “As national president of the Confederation of Italian Hunting Associations and Association for the defense and promotion of rural culture I have already given a mandate to our lawyers to present a complaint to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Ravenna so that the responsibilities and negligence of those who caused the environmental disaster of Canna Valley.
It will be up to the competent authorities to ascertain whether that environmental disaster, which caused the death of many thousands of water birds, could have been avoided. We announce right now - assured the national President Sergio Berlato - that we will be a civil party in the process that will be brought against those who will be held responsible for this huge environmental catastrophe, the consequences of which certainly fall on the community but above all on those from whom the area management, as hunters, fishermen and bearers of rural culture, who historically had been able to maintain an intelligent and profitable balance between anthropogenic activities and safeguarding the ecosystem ".