On Christmas Eve, a deer was poached in Brusio.
Three poachers are suspected of committing the act as well as further violations of hunting legislation. They must answer for their actions before the courts.
The cantonal police of Graubünden received a report on Christmas Eve shortly before 10:30 p.m. that a poached deer was being loaded into a car in Brusio. A police patrol, staff from the Federal Customs Administration, and a game warden checked the suspects at their place of residence. The three locals — a 30-year-old, his 61-year-old father, and a 29-year-old — admitted to having poached the one-sided antlered stag.
Suspicion of further offences confirmed
In the course of the police investigation, suspicion grew that the accused may have committed further criminal acts against hunting and weapons legislation. They confessed to having killed two additional deer in the Poschiavo valley outside the hunting season between December 2020 and March 2021, and to having killed a protected common buzzard during the small game hunting season in October 2021. The three recreational hunters are being referred to the public prosecutor's office of Graubünden.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
