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Dipper killed in Ariège: hunters consider cohabitation with the animal "impossible"

2021-11-21T14:28:11.810Z


The day after the death of a bear and the wounds of the one who killed her, the hunters of Ariège claim to run too great a danger


"Torn legs, broken fibula and affected femoral artery".

The medical assessment of a 70-year-old hunter, who met a bear on Saturday during a hunt in Ariège, is heavy.

He could have been fatal.

What to make conclude to Jean-Luc Fernandez, the president of the Federation of hunting of Ariège, to an impossible cohabitation between the man and the bear, reintroduced here 25 years in the Pyrenees.

Saturday afternoon, the 70-year-old hunter was participating in a wild boar hunt in the town of Seix when he was surprised by a bear, accompanied by her two cubs.

The female dragged him for more than 30 m.

"He owed his salvation only to the presence in the beat of a volunteer firefighter who gave him a compression point", relates Jean-Luc Fernandez.

The hunter out of danger

According to the comments reported by the hunters, the man who first fell on the cubs was violently attacked by the female "behind his back".

"Fortunately he was able to keep his rifle and that he was able to defend himself", underlines Jean-Luc Fernandez, who specifies that the hunter is now "out of danger".

On the side of the Pays de l'ours-Adet association, which has been working for 30 years for the return of the bear, which is a protected species, in the Pyrenees, we deplore the wounds of the hunter and we await the results of the judicial inquiry opened on Saturday.

"Since 2020, this is the fourth bear killed in the Pyrenees (

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, two in Spain and two in France), and the first three were killed illegally", regrets Sabine Matraire, the president of the association.

This asks "that light be shed on the circumstances of this event and also that it lead to training for hunters."

"We have to draw the consequences", continues the activist.

Source: leparis

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