The carabinieri identified twelve boys present at the birthday party in a farmhouse in Anagni on the occasion of which a goat was kicked to death.
Two minors from Fiuggi are accused of fatally hitting the animal, three other minors and seven adults are suspected of instigating a crime, they would have spurred both those who hit the goat and the friend who filmed the scene to continue.
All are young people from Anagni, Fiuggi and Paliano, the age ranges from a minimum of 17 to a maximum of 22 years.
To protest against the incident, about a hundred people took part in the demonstration organized in Anagni by animal welfare associations. Among the organizers, the activist Enrico Rizzi highlighted that «those who mistreat animals often have the knowledge that they will go unpunished. The penalties are too low."
The lawyer Giampiero Vellucci, appointed by the parents of one of the boys accused of the death of the goat, declared that the boy has not yet received communications from the juvenile prosecutor's office and that "he cannot be overwhelmed by a media pillory characterized, in some cases, by very heavy threats that it is having not only the flavor of an anticipated judgment ».
(Unioneonline/L)