The legal case involving the Campania Animal Rights Guarantor has concluded, Giovanni Ferrara. The TAR of Campania rejected the appeal presented by one of the candidates for appointment.
The applicant had submitted his candidacy by answering the first notice published in 2019, subsequently in 2022 with the assignment of new deadlines for the presentation of new applications, in addition to those already presented, and it is in this second round that Ferrara returned. The reopening did not convince the appellant who therefore decided to challenge the decree with which the President of the Regional Council appointed the Guarantor.
The thesis put forward concerned the concern regarding the compatibility of the function to be filled with Ferrara’s professional profile, “ventilating a hypothetical conflict of interest”. Ferrara is in fact the manager of the kennel Dog’s Town of Pignataro Maggiore, in the Caserta area, and among its various activities it carries out public services for the management of stray animals on behalf of some municipal and health administrations.
According to the TAR, however, this thesis represents «a petition of principle, devoid of actual confirmation and indeed discordant with the examination of the functions assigned to the Guarantor”. And based on this assessment it rejected the appeal, to the relief of Ferrara himself who had already held the position of Guarantor of Animal Rights for the Province of Caserta.
«Now we start again – he declares to Kodami – My being an entrepreneur has never influenced my animal protection activity. I had unofficially suspended myself while waiting for clarification, but now we can start where we left off.”
The first point of the Guarantor’s program is the management of stray dogs, an extremely widespread phenomenon in Campania, which involves door-to-door microchipping activities. Ferrara has long since given life to a project home registry in the Municipalities of Caserta significantly called “O tu da noi o noi da te” which could be extended to the other provinces of Campania with the contribution of the Municipal Police Force.
«It is unforgivable that out of 10 dogs caught only 1 has a microchip – underlines Ferrara – over thirty years after the law that made registration mandatory it is no longer acceptable. We must act differently from what has been done up to now, and this can only be done with door-to-door microchipping and with the creation of a DNA database of dogs, also to discourage the abandonment of home litters.”
They are currently in Dog’s Town Totò and Pablo, the dogs that injured and killed the 13-month-old baby in Eboli, in the Salerno area. It is Ferrara itself that is following its fate together with the Criuv. «We worry about the management of certain breeds when we should instead be working on traceability. By demonizing Pitbulls we do nothing but increase their abandonment and the number of these individuals on the streets.”
