The cold-blooded killing of a mother bear known as Amarena has angered animal rights groups and local politicians in Italy.
The brown bear was shot by a local resident of San Benedetto dei Marsi just outside the national park of Abruzzo in central Italy, the park confirmed on Friday. Her 4-year-old cub Juan Carrito made international headlines in 2021 when he broke into a local bakery and devoured hundreds of biscuits. “The park veterinarian intervened on the spot with the emergency team, who however could only ascertain the death of the bear given the seriousness of the wound,” the park said on its Facebook page.
The prosecutor’s office in Avezzano, led by Maurizio Maria Cerrato, has opened an investigation into the killing which is against the 544bis penal code, relating to the cruel murder of an animal without warrant, the prosecutor’s office told CNN. If convicted the man in question could face from four months to two years in prison. The man told police he had shot the animal “out of fear, but I didn’t want to kill it, I found it inside my property.
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