A brown bear in Italy has been sentenced to death for attacking a father and son last week on a hiking trail in the Trentino area.
Fabio Miseroni, 59, and Christian's 28-year-old son, took a walk last Monday when they came four-by-four with the bear.
The animal, according to CNNi, bit the son's leg before the father managed to jump on the bear's back so that the 28-year-old could burst.
The bear began to pulsate to get rid of the 59-year-old's shackles, throwing him down, breaking his leg in three different places. At the same time, his son started clapping to get the attention of the animal, which eventually ran back into the woods.
Following the attack on the two men, the governor of Trentino signed a decree authorizing the capture and euthanasia of the bear, which the authorities are trying to identify through the DNA traces she left on her victims.
In recent years there have been a number of bear attacks and local authorities have set up a database with the genetic "footprint" of the animals that carried them out. They have collected samples of saliva, hair, but also feces. Security camera footage - also - is used to identify the perpetrators.
However, the appeals of the authorities not to disturb the bear of the recent attack are increasing - at least until the circumstances under which the incident took place are fully clarified.
The Italian animal rights group Animalisti Italiani and the World Wide Fund for Nature are urging the local government to stop the. Bear hunt until the investigation into the attack is completed. As they note, it must be clarified whether the victims harmed the animal in any way, which they themselves categorically deny.
Nearly 15.000 people had signed up - until yesterday, Saturday - a request from the World Wide Fund for Nature to save the bear, which calls for the immediate abolition of the death penalty.
The Italian Minister of the Environment also called on them not to harm the bear, saying it could be just a mother who wanted to protect her young.
"Only after specific scientific data have been collected on the attack on the two citizens will we be able to consider technical solutions, which - in my opinion - should not include killing the animal," wrote Sergio Costa.
Source: Ant1