Bear hunt after jogger is killed in Italian Alps

Italian authorities are connected the hunt for a carnivore that killed a 26-year-old jogger successful the north-eastern portion of Trentino past week.

Andrea Papi's ceremonial took spot connected Wednesday. The 17-year-old pistillate carnivore that killed him was known arsenic JJ4 and identified done familial testing.

JJ4 besides attacked a begetter and lad successful June 2020.

The provincial authorities had issued an bid for the carnivore to beryllium killed astatine the time, but it was overturned by a court.

This clip authorities person opted to euthanise the bear. "We are doing everything we tin to find the carnivore and guarantee the information of section residents," said Maurizio Fugatti, the president of the Trentino region.

Mr Papi was moving successful the countryside erstwhile helium was attacked and killed, sparking fearfulness among residents. Many person called the carnivore to beryllium captured and demanded changes to a European program called "Life Ursus" which is aimed astatine reintroducing brownish bears successful the Alps.

People successful Trentino person been expressing condolences and solidarity with Mr Papi's family. Candles person been extracurricular windows arsenic a awesome of mourning, and section municipalities person lowered their flags to half-mast.

In the colony of Caldes, a ample assemblage of mourners filled a religion to wage their respects and connection enactment to Mr Papi's household astatine his funeral.

"The colony is upset, angry," Antonio Maini, politician of Caldes, told reporters extracurricular the church. "One of our boys has died, we are successful mourning, but we are besides aggravated due to the fact that helium died from a carnivore attack. An lawsuit that should not person happened."

The incidental has reignited the statement astir the coexistence of humans and wildlife successful the country and raised questions astir however champion to equilibrium the request to support endangered taxon with the information of residents.

Bears are a protected taxon successful Italy, and their colonisation has been expanding successful caller years owed to conservation efforts. However, their beingness successful residential areas tin airs a hazard to quality safety, arsenic highlighted by the attacks.

"A conscientious medication should enactment successful compliance with the rules for the extortion of biodiversity and should not beryllium moved by a tone of retaliation, a tone of revenge," the planetary Organisation for the Protection of Animals (OIPA) wrote successful a note.

The taxon was reintroduced successful the portion astir 2 decades ago. Since then, the carnivore colonisation successful Trentino has surged from 3 to astir 100, according to information provided by the province.

Despite hopes that the bears would dispersed crossed the Alps, they person mostly remained concentrated successful Trentino.

JJ4, the carnivore liable for the caller fatal onslaught connected the jogger, was calved successful Trentino. Her parents were brought to the country from Slovenia.

Italy's situation minister, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, said the bears mightiness beryllium relocated to different parts of the country, if not abroad, and locals could beryllium equipped with anti-aggression spray.

"Bears and wolves person go a problem, for farmers, breeders, inhabitants, tourists," Reinhold Messner, an Italian mountaineer and explorer told regular paper La Stampa.

"We request a precise regulatory framework, truthful it is wide however to woody with situations of this kind."