Outrage in Italy by a video of Donald Trump JR hunting in the Venice Lagoon

A video of Donald Trump Junior, son of the president of the USA, hunting in the Laguna de Venice (North) is causing outrage in Italy, where the greens have presented a request so that the Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, come to give explanations to Parliament.

The president’s firstborn of the president shooting the birds in an alleged protected area of ​​the famous Venetian lagoon with a group of friends, published on an American website, has already been criticized in the regional council of the Veneto, whose capital is Venice, by the regional deputy Andrea Zanoni, from Europe Green.

Protected species

Zanoni has denounced that the scenes in which Donald Trump Jr appears «shooting several ducks» were «probably recently filmed in Valle Pirimpie ‘, in Campagna Lupia», which is «an area protected by European regulations and is part of a place Natura 2000 of the EU, as a special conservation zone called Laguna Media-Baja of Venice ”.

In addition, it emphasizes that in a frame, Trump’s son is seen «while describing the dejected ducks, among which a coincarca (Tadorna Ferrugginea) is seen in the foreground, a very rare duck in all Europe of almost totally orange oxide color.

It is a protected species throughout Europe by the EU Bird Directive and, of course, by Italian law, «which» in its article 30 sanctions its ‘sacrifice and retention’. «

Greens ask for explanations in Parliament

Last December, Donald Trump Junior was in Venice on vacation with his new partner and a group of friends and participated in a hunt in La Laguna, according to local media, while the deputy remembers that hunting is prohibited for non -residents in Italy .

The controversy will also reach the Italian Parliament, at the request of the Left Green Alliance (AVS)

«We ask the Minister of Environment, Pichetto Fratin, to explain what happened, since the slaughter of protected species is a crime, and if it is true that Donald Trump Junior, son of the president of the USA, was among those participants» , said Avs Luana Zanella deputy. EFE