A garrison to say enough to the exploitation of horses for pulling tourist carriages. The event is promoted by Lav at a national level and will also be held in Lucca on Saturday (22 June) at 4pm in Piazza San Michele.
“The carriage horses live as slaves to arbitrary and violent use in the name of an anachronistic and unacceptable tradition, forcibly maintained only to protect the economic interests of a few people and despite the wider possibilities of replacing carriages with electric vehicles, without repercussions on the employment of operators currently employed in animal-driven transport – declared Nadia Zurlo, national manager of Equidi Lav -. The carriages did not stop even in the scorching heat of recent summers, two horses died in Palermo and one in Caserta, just to name a few. We ask the inhabitants of Lucca to support us in this battle and the tourists not to use carriages to visit cities. We appeal to the municipal administration to no longer grant licenses for animal-drawn vehicles, thus encouraging their conversion, encouraging the use of replacement vehicles, such as
already occurred in the cities of Verona and Cagliari and in the park of the Royal Palace of Caserta. We appeal to the Senate and to the Minister of Transport Salvini to introduce the ban on carriages by law in the second reading of the new highway code”.
