The information is formalized on Tuesday but it was Sunday that a bear was discovered dead in a canyon located in the town of Melles, south of Haute-Garonne.
The animal was "about a year and a half old", according to Christophe Amunzateguy, the public prosecutor of Saint-Gaudens.
He indicates that he opened on Sunday "an investigation for unauthorized destruction of protected species" entrusted to agents of the French Office for Biodiversity.
But the magistrate specifies that the autopsy carried out on Tuesday "clearly excluded any human intervention, and established that the death of this bear was certainly the result of a confrontation with another bear or another animal".
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Pyrenees: Shots (non-lethal) to scare bears allowed again
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