A bear killed a runner on the mountain and they ask to sacrifice it

An unprecedented death shook Italy in the last days. And it is that a young 26-year-old hiker who went out for a run in the mountains was attacked by a wild bear and died from the wounds he sustained in his neck. This is an unusual event given the low number of these animals on Italian soil. However, the public debate circulated around the need to sacrifice it or not.

andrea daddy26, decided to go jogging on Wednesday morning through a wooded and mountainous area northeast of Italynear the town of Caldesin the region of trentinowhen he inadvertently found himself facing a bear that attacked him

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After more than 24 hours, the young man’s family, who reported the disappearance, asked the rescuers for help, who His body was found early Thursday morning in a ravine, with deep wounds to his neck, arms and stomach.some of which indicated that he had been attacked by a carnivorous animal.

Andrea Papi and Alessia Georgi.

The first tests carried out by the forensic security agents based on the autopsy, held that Andrea Papi was “alive at time of attack” and who defended himself with his hiking poles.

After the news spread, some local media and citizens of the Caldes town recalled that less than a month another man was attacked by a bear not far from that place, which opened the debate on the danger of these animals that are already numerous in that region. Some neighbors and specialists asked for the identification and sacrifice of the animal.

Despite the painful loss, Papi’s girlfriend, alessia georgi, He shared different posts on his Facebook account against sacrificing the animal that killed his partner. In most of the publications she insisted that the bear is not to blamethat he acted on instinct and that the human is the one who enters his natural habitat.

The presence of bears in Italy thanks to the project “Life Ursus” for which bears were reintroduced in the autonomous province of Trento between 1996 and 2004. In 2021, 69 specimens were registered in that territory.

In that sense, Annamaria Procacci, a worker at the National Association for the Protection of Animals (Enpa), denounced the absence of a preventive policy for this type of animal. “Man is not a prey for the bear. On the contrary, the bear is a particularly fearful animal that stays away from humans,” explained the ecologist, who lamented the lack of efforts to “discourage access to areas where there are bears with cubs.”

It is estimated that there are between 120 and 200 bears in Italymainly in Trentino and Abruzzo (southeast) and this is the first fatal incident that has been recorded.

With information from AFP

Source: Elcomercio