The first opening day of the hunting season is immediately tinged with blood and controversy in the Frusinate area, where a serious hunting accident has shaken the community of Ceccano. The protagonists of the story are two friends and members of the same hunting team: a 78-year-old pensioner and a 65-year-old man. According to the Carabinieri’s reconstruction, the older man was stationed behind a bush which he began to move to check for the presence of any game.
Unfortunately, the companion located on the opposite side of the vegetation mistook that rustling for the movement of a wild animal, exploding a group of pellets that hit the victim square in the head. Promptly rescued and transported under code red to Frosinone hospital, the injured man is in very serious condition with a guarded prognosis and bullets lodged in his skull. Only after taking his friend to hospital did the sixty-five-year-old spontaneously go to the barracks to hand over the weapon, which was immediately seized, while there were other reports of shots fired near homes in Fontechiari.
The Ipsos Doxa survey and Enpa’s cry of alarm
This dramatic episode forcefully reignites the debate on the dangers of hunting not only for animals but also for those who practice it and those who could accidentally find themselves dealing with stray bullets. All this just as the country comes to terms with the unequivocal data of a recent research conducted by Ipsos Doxa for the Capellino Foundation on a sample of 7,002 adults. The survey reveals that 75% of Italians ask for the abolition of hunting, its progressive reduction until its disappearance or its strict limitation to emergency cases, while just 3% would like to encourage it.
Not only that: 61% consider the environmental impact devastating and 82% consider the activity unsafe for those who frequent woods and paths. Words harshly reiterated by the national president of Enpa, Giusy D’Angelo, who points the finger at the ongoing discussion in Parliament on bill C. 2984, defined as a “shooter” and aimed at overturning the principles of biodiversity protection enshrined in Article 9 of the Constitution.
