Unfortunately, a fatal accident occurred during a wild boar hunt in Liguria. A young man who was out in the woods was killed, struck by a hunter, and the controversy erupted.
A fatal mistake was made by the hunter who fired a shot, killing a nineteen-year-old boy who had decided yesterday morning to visit a Ligurian wood where a wild boar hunt was underway.
One always wonders whether these unfortunate events could be avoided before resorting to extreme, unproductive solutions such as closing hunting on Sundays, as requested by many. This would solve nothing if an accident were to occur on Thursday.
It's probably more appropriate to focus on an incident, which is obviously being investigated by the judicial authorities, which took the life of one person and brought disgrace to another. In recent years, hunting associations and institutions have made significant efforts to address safety, imposing increasingly targeted rules aimed at preventing accidents. Rules require only team hunters to be present in the hunting areas, and rules require the perimeter of the hunt to be marked with signs indicating the danger level of the area. Were there signs in this case? It's likely so, but the signs and their contents must certainly be acquired. Even within the designated hunting area, hunters must pay close attention to where they shoot, aiming at the target correctly and only seeing it shoot in the directions specified by the hunt leader.
All the rest of the current natural chatter is of little use; animal rights activists' calls for a complete ban on hunting are of no use, as they have other starting points, and most other hunts do not pose any mortal dangers, except for accidental, point-blank situations. It's also fair to assume that a complete ban on wild boar hunting would pose similar risks to hikers, given the population dynamics of wild boars, which rely heavily on their migration from the woods, thus supporting their high fertility.
It is therefore necessary to continue to improve the search for safety, but only after having expressed our condolences to the family of this boy and our solidarity with a hunter who had a moment of harmful instinct to pull a trigger, which he would never have wanted in his entire life.
