2023-04-28 12:47:07
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ItalyJogger killed – Government orders problem bear killed again
Trentino Governor Maurizio Fugatti has again ordered JJ4 shot down. In early April, the problem bear killed a jogger.
She could be caught.
Autonomous Province of Trento
In Italy, meanwhile, a heated and emotional debate about the coexistence of bears and humans has flared up.
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That’s what it’s about
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In early April, problem bear JJ4 killed a jogger.
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Now the Trentino provincial government has signed a new shooting order.
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A heated debate has broken out in Italy about the coexistence of bears and humans.
According to the will of the Trentino provincial government, the problem bear JJ4 in northern Italy should finally be shot – but not immediately. After her fatal attack on a jogger in Trentino at the beginning of April, Regional President Maurizio Fugatti issued a decree on Thursday again ordering the bear to be shot down, as the province announced on Friday.
With the current decree, however, the killing is suspended until May 11, when a hearing on the fate of the bear takes place before the administrative court.
“Reasonable to kill the animal”
Shortly after the incident, Fugatti ordered the killing of JJ4. However, the administrative court of Trento had suspended the shooting order after complaints and lawsuits from animal protection associations.
If a decision is made in May, the animal should be killed “as soon as possible,” the decree says. As a precautionary measure for public safety, it is “reasonable to kill the animal rather than accept even the slightest risk that it will come into contact with people again”.
Heated debate in Italy
JJ4, also known as Gaia and the sister of the problem bear Bruno, who was killed in Bavaria in 2006, attacked and killed a 26-year-old jogger in early April. The 17-year-old bear has been in a closed-off game enclosure since she was caught in mid-April.
The Trento court hearing on the fate of JJ4 is now eagerly awaited. In Italy, meanwhile, a heated and emotional debate about the coexistence of bears and humans has flared up.
(DPA/fur)
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