Horror in Lanusei, a group of kids throw a kitten from a bridge

The young people have all been identified. Taffo also intervenes in the case: "This tendency to exaggerate to gain visibility on social media is a social and social plague"

CAGLIARI – The children who in recent days circulated a video online in which one of them throws a kitten from a bridge in Lanusei, Ogliastra have been identified. >, while the others laugh amusedly as if it were a game. The images allowed the Foresters to identify the boy who actually carried out the gesture and his friends, who were summoned together with his parents as they were still minors. The military then filed a complaint for mistreatment of animals pursuant to article 544-ter of the penal code, which provides for a sentence of 3 to 18 months, increased by half if the animal subjected to mistreatment dies. The animal rights association “Lndc animal protection” also filed a complaint: “The intention was to kill, there is no doubt about this, because no one can think that a kitten could survive a flight of that kind – explains the president, Piera Rosati -. The images are truly chilling and it hurts to think of the terror that cat must have felt in those last moments of life”. It also hurts to think “that all this cruelty and brutality are the work of young boys, still minors, who evidently completely lack a sense of empathy and respect for the lives of others – explains Rosati -. How can one think that something like this is funny? The guy who threw the cat is worrying, but everyone else who was watching and laughing is certainly no different.” Finding something like this funny, he concludes, “is disturbing and must make their parents reflect first and foremost, but also society as a whole”.

The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, also intervened on the matter, relaunching the video of the incident on his social channels: “Cursed, disgusting, but how do you do it? I’m speechless– writes the Minister of Transport – It is urgent to accelerate the tightening of penalties for those who mistreat and even kill our animal companions, as required by the League’s bill, now in commission. These are criminals and must be treated as criminals.” Then the post scriptum: “Congratulations to the parents for having educated them so well”.

The mayor of Lanusei, Davide Burchi, instead calls for a stop to social violence against young people: “The administration promptly censured the barbarity of the gesture and, together with the authorities in charge, it was activated every tool necessary to identify the perpetrators and the sanctioning and re-education paths that the law provides in cases like this”. The affair, recalls the mayor, “has strongly shaken the Lanuseine community and that of the neighboring municipalities from which, it seems, some of the subjects involved come, because they are certainly not accustomed to dealing with similar manifestations of cruelty. The same indignation and the same firm condemnation However, they must be addressed against the violence that these children, their families and our entire communities are suffering on social networks”.

Alongside the shareable messages of blame, there appear, in fact, “a myriad of posts and comments with which thousands of people direct the worst insults and the most serious threats to children, parents and, who knows through what twisted mechanism of assimilation, all of them from Lanuse”, warns Burchi. The State and the institutions can adopt “any and all measures of prevention and awareness on the issue of youth distress, identify any and all paths for listening and intercepting the need, but if the example that the adults return is the one for which the judgment of guilt, the measurement and execution of the sentence must be conducted as centuries ago by a crowd with torches and pitchforks, even if virtual, it is evident that nothing will work”. Many are calling for the tightening of penalties for gestures like the one being discussed “and this may be acceptable – specifies the mayor – but the same request should be addressed to those who, from behind a screen and a keyboard, spread violence virtual helping to generate the consequences for which we then pay the consequences in real life”.

The Taffo funeral agency also intervened in the terrible episode, publishing a post: “A boy in Sardinia threw a defenseless kitten from a bridge and then published the video on social media. This tendency to exaggerate to gain visibility on social media is a social and social plague We can only talk about it to prevent it from happening again”.

A boy in Sardinia threw a defenseless kitten from a bridge and then published the video on social media.

This tendency to exaggerate to gain visibility on social media is a social and social plague.

We can only talk about it to prevent it from happening again. pic.twitter.com/r1K1NaWnVq

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