“The presence of the bear is a problem”, according to the president of the department Christine Tequi

“It’s been a long time since we feared an accident, it happened”, reacted Saturday, November 21 on franceinfo Christine Tequi, president of the departmental council of Ariège. A hunter killed a bear who had just bit him in Seix (Ariège). The 70-year-old man, seriously injured in the femoral artery, was evacuated to the Toulouse University Hospital (Haute-Garonne) but his life is not in danger.

For the chosen one, “the presence of the bear is a problem. It is a problem on the pastoral activity and it is a problem because they have reproduced and there are bears in large numbers in this area and that ‘today we are never sure we will not meet them “. She denounces “endangering the population.”

Christine Tequi regrets “not to have been heard” by the government and the head of state that “warned several times because these situations have already arisen”, even if “they ended happily differently”. The president of the Ariège department indicates that she sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron in 2019 because a “Hiker had been chased for 150 meters. And at the time, I was told it’s not an attack, it’s a meeting. No, it’s an attack!”

According to her, it is necessary “to withdraw” bears, “It is not possible to stay with a population of bears which endangers the inhabitants.”