Trento tribunal suspends order to kill bear

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - A local administrative court in the northern autonomous province of Trentino has suspended an order to put down a 17-year-old female bear that attacked and killed a jogger in woods near the Alpine town of Caldes last week, the Anti-Vivisection League (LAV) said on social media Friday.
    The tribunal accepted an appeal presented by LAV against the order issued by the Province of Trento President Maurizio Fugatti for the bear tagged as Jj4 that killed 26-year-old Andrea Papi on Mount Peller to be eliminated.
    This is the second time the court has overturned an order for Jj4 to be put town.
    The first ruling dates to 2020, after the bear attacked and injured two hikers, a father and son, on Mount Peller.
    The same year, the Council of State, Italy's second-tier administrative court, reportedly overturned a separate order by the Trentino president to capture the bear.
    On Thursday the provincial government of Trento said a second bear, an 18-year-old female tagged as Mj5, is also be put down after it attacked a 39-year-old male hiker on March 5, in the Rabbi Valley woods, a few kilometres from Mount Peller.
    Environmental agency ISPRA had issued a favourable opinion on putting down Mj5 as well as Jj4, Fugatti said.
    The case of the deadly bear attack has made headlines in Italy and around the world.
    Papi was the first Italian to be killed by a bear in modern times. (ANSA).