Italian politician Andrea Zanoni told Sky News weeks ago that he even filed a criminal complaint after the U.S. president’s eldest son killed the duck.

According to an Italian newspaper, the Venice Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation that stemmed from a legal complaint made by Green politician Andrea Zanoni.

The local magistrate opened the investigation on February 9 following a legal complaint by regional Green politician Andrea Zanoni and various environmental associations.

Zanoni and several animal rights groups filed criminal complaints—called a denuncia —with the forest police accusing Trump of hunting without a license and killing the protected bird, the ...

A hunting party involving Donald Trump Jr. is being reviewed by the Venice prosecutor’s office after Italian politicians accused the group of killing a protected species of duck, according to ...

The case was opened based on complaints filed by several animal rights activists and regional councilor Andrea Zanoni. The head of the investigation is the lagoon prosecutor Daniela Moroni.

Andrea Zanoni, a member of the Veneto regional assembly, said he had seen footage of Trump Jr. hunting in the EU conservation zone.

Andrea Zanoni, a regional councilor in the north Italy region of Veneto, says video shows the president's son next to the body of a rare ruddy shelduck, otherwise known in Italy as "Tadorna ...

Andrea Zanoni, a regional councilor for the northern Italian Veneto region, that only residents of the Italian regions can acquire the necessary hunting licenses.

Zanoni also said: “In the video, Trump Jr is seen with a ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) in the foreground – a duck that is very rare throughout Europe and protected by the European Union ...

Andrea Zanoni, from the Green Europe party, told Sky News he had notified the Carabinieri environmental crime unit in Mestre.