The District Prosecutor's Office in Limanowa refused to initiate an investigation into the dead foxes in Mszana Górna (Lesser Poland). According to the findings, there was no illegal hunt or animal abuse. The buried twist was either dug out of the ground for unknown reasons by man or by other animals.
In February, near the Porębianka stream About 25 dead foxes with gunshot wounds were found in Mszana Górna. Some of them hung on branches.
Prosecutor's office: There was no crime
Service dealt with the matter, but after preliminary findings, the District Prosecutor's Office in Limanowa refused to initiate an investigation in this case. – In the checking proceedings, it is checked whether the crime has been committed and no witnesses are interrogated. All people who had relevant information in this case were asked as part of the checking procedure – prosecutor Małgorzata Nadziomek, head of the Limanów prosecutor's office, said tvn24.pl.
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According to the findings of the prosecutor's office, the Truchła comes from the hunting shot. – It was not established that there was a crime of abuse of animals or unauthorized hunting, and therefore refused to initiate an investigation – added the district prosecutor.
– Usually, the twisted are buried by hunters. This was the case in this case. Probably other animals dug up these foxes and wandered them around them. The photos do not show that the twist was hung on the branches, but only entangled – explained prosecutor Nadziomek.
Hunters: We dug dead foxes
A press spokesman for the Polish Hunting Association Tobiasz Szczesnowski, however, informed us in response to the questions of tvn24.pl that “a person from outside the hunting environment” made “the digging previously secured by the Hunting Association 'Śnieżnica'.
How was it really? This is not fully known. – None of the hunters did it. This was done by either bystanders or animals, for example other foxes or dogs wandering around. At that time, there was no snow in which we could find trail, so it's hard to say – “Śnieżnica”, Jan Kurek, told us from the Hunting Association. The hunter explained that “situations in which hungry predators dig and eat previously a jack -bodied twist, sometimes happen.”
In this case, however, there was no indication that other wild animals were feeding on dead foxes. In February, Kurek did not want to comment on the case in an interview with the local portal Limanowa.in. “He only stated that the case has a second bottom and is the result of a local conflict,” reported journalists. – It's hard to guess. It is not known what happened – told us hunter. – In the proceedings it was not established that the foxes were unearthed by people – said prosecutor Nadziomek.
PZŁ spokesman: Trupa were taken to utilization
Poviat predators have been organized for nine years at the turn of January and February by the District Board of the Polish Hunting Association in Nowy Sącz. It was in the Limanowski poviat that took place on January 20-26.
As he explained in answering tvn24.pl spokesperson PZŁ, their purpose is “protecting the population of small hunting animals, preventing the spread of epizootic diseases among wild animals, as well as protection of domestic inventory and threatened species such as capercail and black.” According to the explanations of the union representatives, the poviat hunting took place in accordance with the regulations.
“In accordance with applicable procedures, the shot foxes were secured, some of them transferred to poviat veterinary inspectorates for research. The others were buried in designated places” – PZŁ spokesman Tobiasz Szczesnowski wrote to us. After the police intervention at the place of finding dead foxes, their bodies were sent for utilization.
Szczesnowski added that “Polish veterinary regulations do not regulate the issue of the development of acquired individuals”, with the exception of ASF regulations. “A good hunting practice is to protect the trust or patrols not intended for consumption,” emphasized the spokesman for the Hunters' Association.
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