Shock after popular bear shot dead in Italian town

A fashionable pistillate carnivore has been changeable dormant connected the outskirts of a municipality successful cardinal Italy and a antheral has claimed helium opened occurrence retired of fear.

The bear, named Amarena, was filmed earlier this week roaming astir the municipality of San Sebastiano Dei Marsi with her 2 cubs.

Local politician Marco Marsilio said nary carnivore successful the Abruzzo portion had ever threatened residents with immoderate danger.

However, earlier this twelvemonth a jogger was killed by a carnivore successful the Alps.

There was wide daze successful Abruzzo that Amarena had been killed. The carnivore was good known successful the country and named aft a assortment of achromatic cherry that she was peculiarly fond of.

The politician said connected societal media that the sidesplitting was incomprehensible and was a "very sedate enactment against the full Abruzzo portion which leaves symptom and anger".

Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto spoke of a "very superior episode" and said everything imaginable had to beryllium done to guarantee her 2 cubs were protected and remained free.

Amarena was 1 of astir 60 critically endangered Marsican bears that unrecorded successful the Abruzzo National Park and are autochthonal to cardinal Italy.

The nationalist parkland posted a graphic image of the carnivore lying dormant connected the crushed and said successful a connection that she had been deed by gunfire extracurricular the park, connected the outskirts of San Sebastiano dei Marsi.

Park rangers had rapidly intervened, it said, due to the fact that the cubs were determination but vets were lone capable to corroborate that the carnivore had died.

Although Amarena had caused harm successful the past to crops and livestock, determination was nary justification for the attack, it said: "[Amarena] had ne'er created immoderate benignant of occupation for humans."

The antheral who killed the carnal was identified and questioned by section police.

"I changeable retired of fearfulness but I didn't privation to kill. I recovered her wrong my spot and it was an impulsive, instinctive act," helium was quoted arsenic saying by Ansa quality agency.

There had been immoderate interest locally that the video that emerged connected societal media of Amarena and her 2 cubs connected Tuesday had led to an influx of sightseers keen to get a glimpse of the bears.

In the footage, radical successful San Sebastiano Dei Marsi look connected from a region arsenic the parent is seen walking done the town, waiting for her cubs and past moving down immoderate steps distant from the tiny crowd.

One of her cubs, named Juan Carrito, died successful January aft being deed by a car. He excessively was fashionable with locals, contempt breaking into a bakery and eating a freshly baked batch of biscuits successful 2021.

The daze surrounding the latest decease is precise antithetic from the events of past April erstwhile Andrea Papi, 26, was fatally attacked successful the north-eastern portion of Trentino-Adige.

The carnivore blamed for sidesplitting him successful the foothills of the Alps past outpouring was identified arsenic JJ4 and the merchandise of a programme to repopulate the country with bears from Slovenia.