Dipper killed in Ariège: a judicial investigation opened against X for "destruction of a protected species"

The investigation is open for facts of "destruction of a protected species" and "illegal hunting in a reserve".

According to France Bleu, the Foix prosecutor's office, which held a press conference this Friday morning, announced the opening of a judicial investigation against X, six days after the death of a bear in Seix, in Ariège, after a meeting chance with a hunter who shot him.

The prosecution had until then carried out investigations to search for the causes of the injuries caused to the hunter in the legs by the animal, which was in the presence of its young.

A probable violation of the Environmental Code

The man, who must have been hoisted, had been bitten in the thigh, calf and tibia, and presented with a fracture.

The bear was found dead a few meters from the places where the hunter was rescued.

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The radio also reports that the man, a septuagenarian, was not allowed to be at the place of the meeting with the bear.

He was on a hunt in the company of other hunters in the Vallier state reserve, governed by the National Forestry Office (ONF), which now denounces an infringement of the Environmental Code.

When the man came face to face with the bear, he fired a shot in the chest, which killed her very quickly, as evidenced by the autopsy conducted this week.