The Prosecutor’s Office Lleida ask for more than two years in prison for the two accused of killing the Cachou bear in April 2020 in the Val d’Aran, in Lleida, for crimes against wildlife and another for violation of secrets. He is a former councilor of the Conselh d’Aran and a former Environment agent. for crimes against wildlife and another for violation of secrets.
Specifically, in his indictment, which he has advanced The Segrethe public ministry accuses the former Minister of Territory between 2015 and 2019, José Antonio Boya, of be the material author of the animal’s death with the use of poison. To the agent of EnvironmentAran Medan Guerrero, incriminates him for having facilitated the location of the animal and, therefore, for having been a necessary cooperator.
For the former counselor, the Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of two years and four months in prison and for the former Environment agent of the Aranese administration a sentence of two years and three months in prison.
The public ministry maintains that the former Environment agent, being aware of the geolocation keys to access the whereabouts of the bear and knowing that such information was “restricted and should not be disclosed”provided this location to the former councilor, “knowing of his intention to eliminate the aforementioned bear.”
In this way, between January 30 and March 26, 2020, thanks to the geolocation information provided by the former Environment agent with “the intention of attracting the Cachou bear in order to kill it and without being legally authorized.” , He placed a “decoy” with poison in the vicinity so that the animal would ingest it. As a result of ingesting this lure, bear Cachou died on April 9, 2020 in Soberpera forest.
The Prosecutor’s Office recalls in its indictment that Cachou andra an individual of the protected species of brown bearclassified as a species in danger of extinction. In addition, it is included in the Special Protection Regime of the Spanish Catalog of Endangered Species and whose death is deliberately prohibited.
For the material author of the animal’s death, the public ministry also requests a custodial sentence, which he is disqualified from being a rancher for three and a half years. He also requests that he be banned from hunting and fishing for five years and four months.
As for the other accused, the Prosecutor’s Office requests, in addition to prison, a fine of 5,400 eurosbe disqualified from employment or public office for one year and six months, disqualification for three and a half years from the office of environmental agent and being prohibited from hunting and fishing for five years and four months.
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