A 15-month-old baby has died this Monday within the Italian city of Eboli (Salerno, south) due to the accidents prompted by the assault of two pit bull canineswho additionally injured his mother whereas trying to rescue him.
The little boy was in his uncle’s arms when, upon leaving his home, the canines pounced on the boy and they took it from her arms, as reported by the Italian media, which highlighted that the mother additionally suffered accidents, though her life is not in peril.
However, the minor’s aunt and mother’s sister, Milena Santoro, mentioned she didn’t know if the kid was “within the arms of his mother or within the arms of one other particular person”, Well, at first it was identified that he was with his uncle.
“My two brothers have been additionally in the home, perhaps he was within the arms of certainly one of them,” he mentioned, later stating that the canines “didn’t know” the minor and that they have been owned “by a pal” of the household.
To the positioning of the assault, about 85 kilometers from Naples, greater than 100 bogsin addition to a staff of Carabineros (militarized police), whereas the Salerno Prosecutor’s Office (south) has opened an investigation into the occasions.
“It was a ferocious assault and“Although even one of many boy’s uncles intervened to attempt to free him, nothing may very well be accomplished,” mentioned the mayor of Eboli, Mario Conte.
Italy’s foremost shopper affiliation, Codacons, has spoken out concerning the case, calling “loudly for measures to be adopted to assure the protection of residents and restrict the phenomenon of doubtless harmful canines“”Beyond the particular case and the dynamics that prompted the assault (…) there is little doubt that there are canine breeds which are doubtlessly harmful to people,” he mentioned in an announcement.
No present census of harmful canines
Since 2009, Italy has not had an official checklist of doubtless harmful canines and, since 2013, the final 12 months wherein laws on the topic was authorised, the proprietor is held accountable each civilly and criminally for the damages or accidents prompted to third events, in addition to the schooling of the animal.
In Italy there are 70,000 canine assaults in opposition to folks yearly, in accordance to Codacons, which maintains that “whatever the schooling given to the animal, It is universally identified that some breeds may cause deadly accidents in case of chunk.”
In this sense, he has requested a “obligatory license” to personal doubtlessly harmful canines, since “the chunk of a Pomeranian doesn’t trigger the identical wounds” as a pit bull, the group has settled.
The International Organization for the Protection of Animals (OIPA) additionally requested in an announcement to “regulate the possession of sure sorts of canines that, too usually, are chosen by individuals who They do not know the way to deal with them appropriately.
“Locally, some municipalities, corresponding to Milanhave regulated the problem by offering for the granting of licenses for the possession of sure breeds,” recalled OIPA.
