The Italian Association for the Defense of Animals and the Environment (AIDAA) filed a complaint with the Trento Public Prosecutor's Office yesterday afternoon, attaching a written statement that provides an alternate account of what occurred at the site of the death of Andrea Papi, the 26-year-old runner who was killed by a bear on April 5. "Due to the sensitivity of the information contained, we have decided not to disclose the content of the testimony of nearly two typed pages that we have attached to our complaint - write the AIDAA animal rights activists - aspects that are beyond our role as an animal rights association, but yes, we can confirm that this testimony was released by a person who knows the environment well. A person who has collected first-hand information that goes beyond the country's rumors and who excludes the presence of the bear GAIA (JJ4, the alleged author of the attack) at the site of the death of the young Andrea Papi confirming that there was a male bear on the spot"." "It is not for us to judge events and responsibilities," the AIDAA note concludes. "Our task is to send to justice the data in our possession, which in this case also serves to exonerate the bear Gaia, for which we ask for its immediate release from Le Cateller, as well as the liberation of all the bears locked up in that prison that gives the animals treatment comparable to human 41 / bis."
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