[attach id=249046 size="medium"]Andrea Zanoni[/attach]

The chairman of the League for the Abolition of Hunting, Veneto, which is affiliated to the European Federation against Hunting, since 2000 has called on the European Commission to block the spring hunting derogation for Malta.

Andrea Zanoni, says “it is unacceptable that a European country violated European law so blatantly by opening fire on thousands of migratory birds” and “the Maltese authorities are to be fined”.

Zanoni was in Malta for a few hours last October as guest of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter, a group of self-appointed bird guards that pledged to use any legal means possible to end legal spring hunting. During this visit he was “clearly impressed by the work of the ALE and praised their efforts to prevent poaching” yet, he now declares “the controls provided by the Malta’s authorities were ridiculous”.

Indeed, a true charlatan.

Considering that, according to CABS, throughout all European States 102 million birds are shot annually with the blessing of the Birds Directive and derogations thereof, Zanoni must have a hard time lobbying that all such countries are violating European law and that their governments are to be fined.

The European Commission states it would be “carefully looking at reports by interested parties, particularly environment lobbyists”. Does it mean the reports by the chairman for the League for the Abolition of Hunting and by CABS that considers hunting as slaughter?

In that case it had better look at them very carefully because the last thing one expects from such extremists is the true interpretation of fact. Is the Commission that gullible?