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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 15 MARCH 2015 8 TIM DIACONO IT will be "interesting" to find out whether the man who verbally har- assed a SHout activist yesterday morning was actually a hunter, Yes campaign coordinator Kathleen Gri- ma said. SHout campaign coordinator Romina Tolu was verbally harassed by a hunter while she was waiting for a SHout press conference to com- mence outside St Helen's Basilica, Birkirkara, yesterday morning. "I don't know what happened ex- actly, but if the activist feels that injustice has been done, she can file a report to the police," Grima said when asked by MaltaToday whether she thinks that SHout have anything to fear throughout the campaign. She was speaking at a short discus- sion session in Rabat attended by around 50 people. "However, I've also heard about other incidents, whereby Yes cam- paign billboards were vandalised," Grima added, to which the audience cheered. Yes campaign coordinator Daniel Sciriha reiterated his campaign's stance that a victory for the No vote could spell doom for other hobbies. "This is the beginning of some- thing bigger and could lead to the future abolishment of other hobbies like fireworks and fishing," Sciriha said. "We believe that hobbies are healthy and that people have a right to keep practicing them. Spring hunting is a tradition. The density of quail and turtledove that fly over Malta in spring is ten times greater than their autumn numbers." He said that turtledove and quail aren't at risk of extinction in Eu- rope. "If their populations ever start de- clining at a worrying rate, the EU itself will prohibit spring hunting," Sciriha said. He added that the sharp decline in turtledove populations in the Unit- News Mosque Illegal fireworks made in garage beneath Gozo discotheque POLICE found a cache of explo- sives inside a garage on Triq Mro Giuseppe Giardini Vella, in Rabat, Gozo, on Friday. Two men from Rabat have been arrested. The explosive was pyrotechnic material, that was being stored inside a garage beneath entertain- ment spot Ku Club, which forms part of the Astra Theatre. The police raid was carried out at 3pm. La Stella Band Club and As- tra Theatre president Paul Cassar told MaltaToday that the two men, cousins, were arrested because the garage was in their care. Cassar denied that the two had been caught red-handed. Police investigations are under- way, together with a magisterial in- quiry. Police have secured the area. Yes campaign casts doubt over whether SHout abusers were hunters Yes campaign coordinators Kathleen Grima and Daniel Sciriha addressing the activity in Rabat (below)