Secondigliano, he kept 32 goldfinches: one was crushed with his hands, the carabinieri arrived. THE VIDEO

Secondigliano. Goldfinch crushed in front of the Carabinieri. 48-year-old reported, the other specimens released in the Capodimonte forest.

It was just after 16pm when the Carabinieri of the Naples mobile radio unit were contacted by personnel from the Neapolitan LIPU to report a man who in Via Aspromonte in the Secondigliano district illegally held some little birds.

The man is a 48 year old local man and has specific precedents, a “captor” of the serial ones. The military intervenes and finds 32 goldfinches, including 3 harnessed, placed in different cages. They are all in terrible hygienic and sanitary conditions.

The most horrifying thing, however, happened in front of the Carabinieri when the man caught in the act crushed one of the small goldfinches that he had in his hand at that moment in the insane gesture of hiding it from the sight of the soldiers.

The 48-year-old will answer to the judicial authorities killing and mistreatment of animals. In addition to the cages, a catch net. For the other small birds, however, fate was more benevolent.

Carabinieri and Lipu staff, in fact, they brought them to the Capodimonte wood where in the presence of some children they were able to resume their destiny by flying free.