Orso M57: Enpa and Oipa have filed an appeal to the Council of State to obtain the annulment of the sentence of the Trento TAR
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him The National Animal Protection Agency (Enpa) and the International Animal Protection Organization (Oipa) say no to the fate that the Autonomous Province of Trento has reserved for the young bear M57, practically sentenced to life imprisonment for having come into contact with a carabiniere last year. It was August 2020 when, immediately after an alleged attack that took place at the gates of Andalo, the president of the Province ordered the capture of the bear. Since then, it has been a crescendo of distressing images coming from the Casteller center in Trento. A fate common to many bears, unfortunately: also DJ3, the daughter of the bear Daniza, the specimen brutally killed in 2014 with narcotics after capture, had to be locked up for 10 years before being transferred from Casteller to Alternativer Bärenpark Worbis, in Germany. Well, but not very well, since it's not her natural habitat anyway.Read also: Bears locked up at Casteller, for the first time shown the terrible conditions in the steel and concrete cages
The appeal for M57
"We have just filed with the Council of State the appeal to obtain the annulment of the sentence of the TAR of Trento, after the suspension in effect, of last April 16 with which it rejected our request for freedom for the M57 bear", they announce. In fact, despite little talk about it, on April 16, the same day in which the TAR of Trento accepted the request of Enpa and Oipa on the bear JJ4 to cancel the ordinance of the Province of Trento which ordered its capture , bad news has come for the M57 bear: the TAR of Trento sentenced him to life imprisonment. Yet the young bear was imprisoned with a completely anomalous procedure and with an insufficient investigation: captured on an order given orally by President Maurizio Fugatti, without a real in-depth investigation into the unfolding of the facts, or rather on the meeting with the carabiniere which took place in in the middle of the night in a wooded area, and therefore in the habitat of the animal, with unclear modalities. "Furthermore, even in the following weeks, the Autonomous Province of Trento did not give formal news to Ispra, as required by law, and this despite the numerous and well-known forms of protection enjoyed by bears at an international, European and national level. “, They say from the associations. From the reconstructions of what happened that night, it is clear that M57 was a natural form of reaction due to fear. The bear, in fact, was taken aback by the meeting with the carabiniere in the middle of the night in his habitat and forced into a false attack. A behavior that, according to the interregional action plan for the conservation of the brown bear in the central-eastern Alps (Pacobace), never provides for life imprisonment. "It is not enough - conclude Enpa and Oipa - to have won legal battles for JJ4 more than three times, guaranteeing, for the first time last summer, the right to life, later obtaining from the State Council the suspension of the sentence of the arrest and imprisonment for life, up to a little more than a month, when the Trento TAR accepts our request for freedom for the bear. M57 also has the right to a future of freedom. Ours is a strong and dutiful commitment towards the Ursine population of Trentino which is denied that policy of coexistence with people which is the only solution for this painful and unjust form of hostility that is carried on towards bears. Coexistence policy still denied, since both M49 and M57 languish in the concrete pits of the well-known Casteller and that no one will return to DJ3, sent a few days ago to Germany probably to free a cell, the past ten sad years of imprisonment in the Casteller “. Sources: ENPA / OIPA Read also:- #StopCasteller: posters appear in the cities to ask for the release of the bears imprisoned in Trentino
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