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Protesters staged rival demonstrations Saturday in the southwest of France over the killing of a brown bear in the Pyrenees mountains last month.

The rallies came as tensions rise between animal rights defenders and farmers who want their livestock protected from the animals.

In the southwest city of Toulouse, around 150 people, supported by 14,000 petitioners, gathered to call for investigators to find and prosecute the killer of the bear. It was the second found dead this year in the Pyrenees, where they are a protected species. The killing of a protected species is punishable by three years in jail and a fine of 150,000 euros .“We need to find the culprits, so that the case is not closed without further action,” said Alain Marek, regional delegate of the country’s Association for the Protection of Wild Animals.

“It is fundamental to replace the animal killed,” he told protesters at the rally. “Every animal counts.”

 

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