SAN BENEDETTO DEI MARSI, SEP 3 – The man who last week shot dead a female bear known as Amarena in the Abruzzo town of San Benedetto dei Marsi told ANSA on Sunday that he has come under a barrage of death threats.
“I haven’t slept or eaten for three days,” said Andrea Leombruni, who is under investigation over the animal’s death.
“I have stopped living. I continually receive telephone calls and messages with death threats.
“They even called by 85-year-old mother.
My whole family is being pilloried.
“I did the wrong thing,” he continued.
“I realized that as soon as I fired the shot. I was the one who called the Carabinieri police”.
Leombruni’s wife confirmed that the whole family was going through an ordeal.
“This violence is not right, this torture they are putting us through,” she said.
“Prosecutors are investigating and they will judge.
“We will certainly be punished, rightly so, but why do we have to live with police protection? “Why should we be afraid to live?”.
Source: Ansa News Agency (ANA)