Dordogne: A reward of 5,000 euros offered to find who shot a stork

WANTED The Sea Shepherd association has launched a call for testimonies, with a reward of 5,000 euros, after the death of a stork found riddled with shot in a forest in the Dordogne

Illustration of a stork. — RNN Bruges

• The announcement by the NGO Sea Shepherd posted on social networks on Tuesday is starting to get a lot of attention.
• This is not the first time that the association has used this process, which has already been launched in the case of the death of two seals in the North, and a bear in Ariège.
• Sea Shepherd thus wishes “advancing the investigation” and “shining the spotlight on a practice that must end”.

A reward of 5,000 euros was awarded. promised for any testimony allowing to find the poacher of a stork, found riddled with pellets in the forest of Double (Dordogne) on November 15th. The NGO Sea Shepherd’s announcement posted on social media on Tuesday, begins to roll out. know a wide echo. The animal, a protected species, had to be euthanized.

BRACONNAGE : UNE CIGOGNE CRIBLÉE DE PLOMBS DÉCOUVERTE EN DORDOGNE

Une cigogne a été découverte criblée de plombs dans la forêt de la Double en Dordogne le 15 novembre dernier. Elle n’a pas pu être soignée et a été euthanasiée.
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— Sea Shepherd France (@SeaShepherdFran) December 6, 2022

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Although sometimes called into question, Sea Shepherd’s initiative is entirely consistent. legal fact. This is not the first time that the association has used this process. “In France, we launched; a reward of 10,000 euros when two seals had been found decapitated in the north of France, then after the death of a bear in Ariege, explains Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France. This does not work at; all the shots, but it’s effective. This had participated to Find the perpetrator of the seal decapitation.”

Reward only given if the perpetrator is convicted

The initiative also “brings the spotlight on a practice, poaching, which must stop” continues Lamya Essemlali, who adds that there is “often an omerta around this kind of acts”.

On the terms, “we first sort it out, then the testimonies that we consider interesting are transferred to the investigators who take over” explains Sea Shepherd. “The award is given only if the testimony results in the condemnation of the person.” The association specifies that it does not replace either the investigators or the justice, “who obviously remain decision makers.” An investigation has also been carried out. opened by the Bergerac public prosecutor’s office, in the case of the death of the migratory bird.

Lamya Essemlali also points out that in the case of the killed bear; in Ariège, “several people had bid to inflate the reward of 10,000 euros that we were offering. We ended up blocking when the sum reached 50,000 euros. It’s interesting, because offering rewards isn’t common, we sometimes hear dubious comparisons with informing, and at the same time France is the only country where it’s it happened to us.”