An 81-year-old French hunter tried trial on Tuesday, accused of killing the female respect that was attacked in the Pyrenees.
Brown bear is a protected species in the mountain range that separates France and Spain.
Andre Rives was Wild boar hunting When a woman attacked the caramel nickname.
On November 20, 2021, two bear-cubes came out of the forest in front of the river. Then the mothers appeared, loading him and dragging for several patsons. He faused and killed the animal.
Water suffered leg injuries and was in a state of shock. A fellow hunter managed to bleed the stalk before evacuating the helicopter.
According to the study, the bear was killed 1,300 meters away from an authorized hunting site.
The case caused an incident in the Ariege department, where hunters have made demonstrations that have favored the escape.
“This is not a fermental or ferment test,” the Judge Sun Yung Lazare said. Rives is going on trial “to destroy a protected species,” he said.
When the Cubs were created, “He looked at them admiration,” Rives said in court. “I did very little. Then the mother saw me. I met our eyes, he charged it.”
That he did not shoot the opportunity.
“I grabbed my left thigh, I fired it and shot it away. He went away around me, and my right beef fell a little, he ate leg,” he added. “I reloaded my rifle and shot it.”
“Bears are threatened with extinction”
Hunt, other hunters who took part in talking were prosecuted several crimes, including Mont Valier Natural Reserve hunting, one of the oldest reserves of the Pyrenees.
About 20 associations presented the issue.
Jean-Luc Fernandez, President of the Local Hunting Federation, said Rives killed the bear in self-defense.
“He fired,” he said. “He had to do it? No, he saved his skin.”
Hunters also argued that the limits of the reserve were incorrectly marked.
“You don’t know where you are really,” one of them said.
The photos shown on the headset showed a barely visible signage – against the white background of the reserve painted in the RED Rs trees.
“It’s about knowing your duty as a hunter,” he replied Olivier Mouysesset.
Activists compete the notion of self-defense.
“How much can a need be discussed when a series of crimes caused by the death of bears caramel?” Ask Alain Reynes’s Bear-Conservation Association pays ours. According to this groupIn 2023, in the Pyrenees, 83 bears were detected and 11 female gave birth.
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Animal rights activists as a comprehensive maintaining a fragile mountain ecosystem under threat of human activity and climate change.
The bears almost disappeared from the mountains before France reinserted in the 1990s, importing from Slovenia.
But the presence of the bear has led to increasing tension with farmers because of the threat that they raise with their livestock.
Julie Rover, a lawyer who replaces some of the associations has said that animal rights activists wanted to send a message.
“They are not against hunting, but not to harm the environment, they must respect their rules,” Rover said.
“The bears are threatened with extinction – the disappearance of a female growth is serious.”
There are also similar discussions about brown bears around Italy. Last year, the Italian province of Italy confirmed Kill the female bear Responsible for an attack on a French mountaineering – despite protests for animal rights entrepreneurs
He marked the incidence of the ninth-attacking attack when brown bears were re-entered in the province of 1999, as a European Union project, and a mountaineer first died in the last summer.
In September 2023, a man fired and killed the brown bear of danger Near the Italian national park, leaving his two young cubes in the village and the rage in the country. The park published a graphical image It was dead on the ground of the bear.
In 2023 Earlier, the judgment of the administrative court by A’s life brown bears attacked a runner On the Italian regional route.