The Venice prosecutor's office has opened a case related to the hunting trip that took place last December in a reserve in the Venice lagoon and in which Donald Trump Jr. participated. During the hunt, documented by some videos in which the son of the president of the United States also appears, a shelduck, a protected species, was killed.
The images show Trump Jr. showing a row of killed birds. The case was opened based on complaints filed by several animal rights activists and regional councilor Andrea Zanoni.
The head of the investigation is the lagoon prosecutor Daniela Moroni. According to the defense thesis of the group of eight Americans who took part in the boat excursion, on the morning of the hunt in Valle Pierimpiè in Campagna Lupia there were two other groups of hunters intent, like them, on killing ducks.
"This is a necessary act - says councilor Andrea Zanoni (Avs) to Ansa - now we need to understand what the crimes are: one is the criminal one, the possession of a duck protected by the EU directive, the ruddy shelduck. Probably there could be crimes related to weapons and the carrying of weapons".
For the councilor, "Italian regulations on the possession and carrying of weapons are very severe and provide, in the event of violation, criminal sanctions." And there could also be "other violations such as the use - he points out - of lead ammunition that is prohibited in sites protected by the EU such as the lagoon, precisely to avoid poisoning the waters and wildlife." According to Zanoni, "there is certainly the crime of possession and killing of protected wildlife."
