Turtle stoned to death by a baby gang in Cumiana. Animal rights activists: “Dangerous people who enjoy killing”

They pulled one of the 120 turtles that live in the lake in Piazza Martiri III Aprile out of the water and then stoned it until it died. Author of a group of kids, scene of the sad episode is the Cumiana lake, just outside Turin.

«On Friday evening the Ippo was once again the scene of incivility – the parish priest denounces on the parish’s social page, showing photos of the asphalt full of blood -. A tortoise from public gardens, an innocent creature, she was killed barbarically. Decisive counter and corrective actions are needed. Defacing a wall is offensive, killing a living being is inhumane. This isn’t hardship, it’s delinquency».

In the coming days, the possibility of installing new surveillance cameras in that area will be examined. The mayor of Cumiana also condemned the episode. And the animal rights association LNDC Animal Protection protests, taking the field «with its lawyers and asks citizens to collaborate to identify the culprits by writing to [email protected]». President Piera Rosati: «Intolerable acts, the authors of this gesture sThey are dangerous people to society if they find it amusing to kill a totally harmless and defenseless creature in this way».

«I don’t understand and will never understand what goes through the minds of these people – he adds -, but it is certainly something terribly dangerous if they find it fun to kill a totally harmless and defenseless creature. Even more so if we are talking about young people, as hypothesized so far, we find ourselves faced with a alarm bell that must in no way be underestimated because this type of behavior can worsen with growth and become socially dangerous». And he recalls that in the province of Turin «there was a case in which the investigations were carried out so carefully as to identify the killers of a poor hedgehog even after a few years. I hope that this will be the case this time too and that anyone with useful information will come forward instead of looking the other way.”