A bonus of 10,000 euros to find the killer whale shooter in the Seine

On May 16, 2022, an orca was spotted in the Seine, between Honfleur and Le Havre (Seine-Maritime).

She was found dead a few days later, despite attempts to bring her back to the sea. A necropsy, a post-mortem examination carried out on the animal, revealed that a bullet was lodged in the flesh of the cetacean.

Since then, the association for the defense of the oceans Sea Shepherd has promised a reward against any information allowing the identification of the shooter, indicates

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10,000 euros are promised.

At this time, the date and location of the shooting remain unknown.

According to Lamya Essemlali, this type of reward has already been used and has proven its worth.

For example, sailors have been identified, suspected of having beheaded seals in Concarneau in 2019.

A possible fisherman's shot

For the president of the NGO, it is a fisherman's shot that would remain the most likely scenario.

"The practice is unknown, but often killer whales, dolphins, seals are shot, because of the competition for fishing And as this happens in the open sea, it is with virtual impunity" she explains to our colleagues .

Still, it is not this bullet that would have caused the death of the orca.

The first information favors the starvation hypothesis, the animal having stopped eating.

The isolation of the killer whale, which normally lives in groups, could explain this phenomenon.

An investigation is still underway to try to understand why the cetacean got lost in the Seine and was unable to reach the sea.

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