A House panel on Thursday OKd a
crackdown on bear killers after a recent case in Abruzzo in
which a man shot dead a female bear after she strayed onto hos
property, saying she had scared him.
The green light to an amendment that 'toughens the penalties for
those who capture or kill Marsican bears' was announced by the
chair of the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Chamber of
Deputies, Nazario Pagano, centre-right Forza Italia (FI) Abruzzo
regional coordinator, commenting on the proposed amendment to a
justice bill.
"The amendment," Pagano said, "provides for the arrest from six
months to two years and a fine from 4,000 euros to 10,000 euros
in the case of the killing, capture and possession of Marsican
brown bear specimens."
The popular bear Amarena was gunned down in the Abruzzo national
park on the evening of August 31 by a 56-year-old resident of
San Benedetto dei Marsi.
Her cubs are said to be surviving OK and fending for themselves,
after initial fears they would not be able to.
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