Since the wolf’s return to the Netherlands in 2018, at least 41 animals have been killed by poachers, according to a new report by the independent research firm EcoJust. According to the researchers, this is not an isolated incident, but a systemic problem in which wolves are being killed on a large scale and with little risk.
Freddy Horion, the notorious Belgian six-time murderer, has been released from prison after 47 years, according to Het Laatste Nieuws. On Monday, he was transferred to a secure unit at the forensic care center in Rekem, a borough of Lanaken in the province of Limburg, Belgium. There, he is being prepared for a possible return to society, including wearing an ankle monitor and receiving strict supervision.
The heat wave in France has already claimed the lives of at least 20 people who died from drowning. Marina Ferrari, Minister of Sports, Youth, and Social Life, announced this on Monday on France Inter.
In Carpentras, a city in Provence, France, two children aged 2 and 4 were found dead in their mother’s car on Monday afternoon. The car was parked in the family’s garage.
Prominent Russian journalist Grigory Nekhoroshev (69), who in 2008 was the first to reveal President Vladimir Putin’s relationship with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Riga, the Latvian capital, where he had been living in exile as a political refugee for 11 years.
During a search conducted as part of a drug investigation, French police unexpectedly discovered a work by Pablo Picasso. The exclusive piece may be worth several million euros. The investigation has since expanded to include theft and receiving stolen goods after the painting was found in a home in Champigny-sur-Marne, east of Paris.
Praise is being heaped on the zookeeper’s heroic actions. The 55-year-old co-owner of the park reportedly jumped from a height of 4.5 meters to save a child.
Protests in Albania have been ongoing for more than twenty days. Angry demonstrators have taken to the streets carrying signs featuring flamingos to oppose plans for a so-called Trump resort, but the underlying discontent extends beyond this single project. The planned luxury resorts by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the daughter and son-in-law of the U.S. president, would be built in a protected nature reserve known as a habitat for flamingos. The European Union is also viewing the plans with concern: according to Brussels, proceeding with construction could affect Albania’s chances of joining the EU.
Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who founded Ubisoft, died Friday evening in a plane crash in La Baule, in which two people lost their lives.
Whaling returns to Iceland following a two year hiatus.