This Tuesday, the Foix Criminal Court sentenced the hunter to four months in prison, the hunter who had killed the caramel bear during an illegal battery in 2021 in the Pyrenees.
A penalty in accordance with the requisitions pronounced by the prosecution, on March 19, against the 81 -year -old hunter, author of the fatal shot after being injured by caramelles, a 150 kg female, accompanied by two cubs.
“Stage defense”
At the bar of the court, the main defendant had admitted to having opened fire on the Bear, in a state of “self -defense”. “She grabbed my left thigh, I panicked and I pulled a rifle. She fell backwards, she bypassed me and bit my right calf, I fell, she poured my leg, I rearmed my rifle and I pulled. She died five meters below, ”he said.
The prosecution had also required two years of ban on weapon port, two years of suspension of the hunting license and 1,800 euros fine against it.
60,000 euros for civil parties
Fifteen other hunters who also participated in the hunt in a reserve above the Ariège village of Seix were sentenced to fines of a few hundred euros and withdrawals from the hunting permit, all defendants having to collectively pay more than 60,000 euros to the environmental associations formed civil parties.
