The usual unacceptable tragic story. the Palio di Siena has not even started and there is already a victim. It is the 7-year-old Periclea mare, killed after a serious injury. The accident occurred during one of the 4 batteries of the section, which precedes the assignment of the barbers to the districts
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
The usual unacceptable tragic story. the Palio of Siena it hasn't even started and a victim is already registered. And the Periclea mare, 7 years old, shot down after a serious injury. The accident occurred during one of the 4 batteries of the section, which precedes the assignment of the barbers to the districts.
Was his killing avoidable? To find out, Lav asks for access to veterinary documents that have convinced her not to operate on the animal for the fracture, which occurred after Periclea tripped over the hind limbs of the horse that preceded her. Who can in fact rule out that Could the animal still have continued a life worth living?
“Or it was intended to euthanize evidence of the accident? Real transparency should be done by publishing all the reports ”, asks Lav. Another serious issue is participation in the Palio of the jockey who runs today for the Pantera district, disqualified for ten years in September 2013 for having behaved in a "seriously imprudent, dangerous and inadequate behavior", as he "violently flanked and whipped the horse while since the rope is still pulled ”, as the Captain and Magistrate of the Piedmontese Palio wrote in the suspension.
For these facts there is also a trial in court. Furthermore, a month ago he was expelled from the Palio di Legnano. The history of the Palio di Siena, the Enpa increases, speaks for itself, in terms of the number of confirmed dead horses: from 1970 to today there are 50. These are not "accidents" but a rule.
"When a demonstration is marred by seven deaths in fifteen years, with a tragic average of one death every two years, we cannot speak of accidents or tragic fatalities: for this reason the drama that had as an involuntary protagonist the mare Periclea, killed after being seriously injured during the batteries of the Palio di Siena, represents a death foretold. More: a probable event, at least according to the tragic case history of the last fifteen years ".
This was declared by the national president of Enpa, Carla Rocchi, who continues: "at this point any excuse is useless, any manifestation of condolence is hypocritical and unbearable: the least that can be done is stop the Palio". Will these words remain unheard once again?
Roberta Ragni
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