The mayor of Rome has filed a criminal lawsuit against the government of the surrounding area of Lazio for “the existence of a large number of uncontrolled wild boars in the Italian capital”.
In recent years, the citizens and farmers of Rome Protest against the wild boar And caused a fatal car accident on their land. It is believed that there are an average of 10,000 road traffic accidents in the country each year.
The Mayor of the Capital of the Five Star Movement (M5S), Virginia Raggi, accused the regional government led by former Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti of responding to what she said ” “Wild boar invasion” was responsible and failed to implement “the effective management plan for these animals.”
The debate was rekindled in May Videos widely shared on social media The photo shows six wild boars stealing things from a woman who just came out of a supermarket near Rome.
Four adults and two piggy animals chased the woman as she backed, trying to stop them, but to no avail. Then she was forced to throw the shopping bag on the ground, and the wild boar immediately attacked it.
In October last year, Raggi ordered an investigation of the common wild boar families in the city. Shot and killed by police in a children’s playground Near the Vatican. The incident triggered protests from animal rights activists and some locals.
A report by Coldiretti, the country’s largest farmer association, said that wild boar incidents occur every 48 hours, and there are more and more incidents of wild boar rummaging through garbage in urban areas.
Italian farmers, animal breeders and shepherds protested in front of the Roman parliament in July to oppose the “invasion” of wild boars in farmland and cities across the country, and demanded that the government end this behavior. The banner read: “After Covid, the wild swine plague”; “Let us defend our land”; and “Urban and rural united against wild boar”.
Cordiretti said that the increase in animal populations in some areas of Italy is unsustainable and he asked the authorities to intervene. “We must act as quickly as possible and involve the military when necessary,” Cordiretti said in a statement in April, citing the situation in Piedmont.
There are an estimated 2 million wild boars roaming around Italy Hunting them is a popular pastime. Wild boar is a staple of Tuscan and Umbrian cuisine.
