New penalties in Italy for motorists who abandon pets.
Italy’s transport committee on Wednesday authorised an modification to the freeway code to tighten penalties on motorists who abandon their canines by the roadside when occurring trip.
In a press release on Wednesday, a gaggle of Lega parliamentarians mentioned the “uncivilised phenomenon” of abandoning canines has reached “unacceptable numbers”, notably in the summertime, concluding: “We hope that these measures can have a deterrent impact on barbaric, harmful and felony practices”.
Lega chief and deputy Italian premier Matteo Salvini informed the senate final July that along with being “an act of absolute barbarism and incivility”, abandoning pets by the roadside “additionally dangers jeopardising the security of these travelling”.
An estimated 71,000 canines had been deserted in Italy in 2022, based on figures launched final yr by Italian environmental foyer group Legambiente.
As a part of an annual consciousness marketing campaign final summer season, Italy’s police issued a reminder that abandoning an animal is against the law, with penalties of as much as one yr in jail and fines from €1,000 to €10,000.
