The wolf has been regaining ground in France in recent decades and some people take a dim view of this. Four people were sentenced this Thursday by the criminal court of Valence (Drôme) for having poisoned a wolf, then transporting and hiding its corpse at the beginning of 2022, indicates France Nature Environnement in a press release.
The heaviest sentence falls to a municipal councilor, breeder and local referent of the wolf/lynx network of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB). He was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence, a five-year ban on hunting licenses and a five-year ban on carrying a weapon for using carbofuran, a highly toxic insecticide whose use is banned in France. since 2008.
Two breeders, one of whom is a member of the board of the municipal hunting association, were given a four-month suspended prison sentence for their complicity in the transport and burying of the animal.
Finally, the fourth defendant, who had supplied the poison, was sentenced to a fine of 500 euros plus 500 euros suspended. The four litigants will also have to jointly pay a little more than 20,000 euros to the civil party associations.
