French hunter given suspended sentence for kill

The 81 -year -old hunter in France was sentenced to four months in prison for killing an endangered bear in the Pyrenees.

The man said, “There is no other choice,” he said, but when he attacked him during the 2021 wild boar hunt, he was on the brown bear.

Fifteen other hunters were fined, and they must pay a total of 60,000 euros (£ 51,000) as a damages against the environmental association that filed a civil lawsuit.

The 150kg female bear, nicknamed Caramelles, is then preserved by stuffed and exhibited at the Tuluz Natural History Museum.

The FOIX Criminal Court has heard that the group is hunting for a wild boar in the Pyrenees, a mountain range that separates the southern France and southern Spain.

Shortly afterwards, their mother appeared, charging the man, dragging a few meters to shoot and killed him before killing.

“She grabbed my left thigh and was embarrassed and shot.

“I re -loaded the rifle and fired.”

The shooting incident occurred in Mont Valier Nature Reserve near Ariège’s Seix Village. The prosecution said it should not have been there at first because it is 1,300 feet (396m) outside the official hunting area.

But the lawyer of Fanny Campagne, 14 hunters, criticized that “there was no signal that hunting was banned.”

The shooter was fined 750 euros, and his rifle was confiscated and his hunting license was canceled.

In the statement, the Gom Conservation Association said that the ruling is “justified,” the ruling that the bear conservation association pays DE L ‘our.

“All hunters have been convicted of us the most important.

“We hope that this ruling will raise awareness among the hunting communities,” he added.

The Brown Bear Population dropped sharply in the Pyrenees and only 70 in 1954. According to the Tourism Committee in this area,.

However, as part of the re -introduction program, the numbers have slowed down since the 1990s, when three bears disappeared from Slovenia.

2024, French biodiversity office It is estimated that there are about 96 bears now in the mountains.