Two sectioned wolf heads. It is the macabre reception that one or several strangers had prepared for the President of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, and his advisers in San Juan de Beleño (Ponga), where the meeting of the Governing Council was held. The local mayor, Martha Alonsowas one of the people who came across the scene upon arrival at the Consistory.
Shortly after, a patrol appeared in San Juan de Beleño and proceeded to remove the remains. The Civil Guard has already opened an investigation to determine the origin of the severed heads and the author or authors of the crime.
macabre reception
The appearance of the heads occurred a few hours before the arrival of the regional leaders. The President strongly condemned the act. Barbón has remembered the “clear” position of his government against the inclusion of the wolf in the List of Wild Species under Special Protection Regime (Lespre), but added that this “is not compatible with what has happened here today, which is a crime,” he stressed.
The mayoress has agreed with Barbón, has condemned the action and has expressed her confidence in that those responsible “pay” for what happened.
Marta Alonso recalled that Ponga is the only Asturian town hall that filed an appeal against the inclusion of the wolf in the list of protected species. “I think that there are democratic channels to claim it. This has nothing to do with the Ponga farmers, nor does it represent this council,” he said, referring to the placement of the heads of the two animals.
during the early morning
The decapitated heads of the canids, according to residents of the town, had been deposited during the early hours of the morning in front of the headquarters of the Ponga Town Hall. In the absence of official confirmation, everything indicates that the heads belong to recently dead specimens.
It is not the first time that wolf heads have appeared in Asturias. Seven years ago, for example, Two other wolf heads appeared hanging from the “Roman” bridge of Cangas de Onís. On that occasion, the remains of the two canids were rescued at four in the morning by a Local Police patrol.
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The heads were tied with rope, one on each side of the head. Victoria Cross, which hangs in the center of the monument. The Local Police handed over the remains to the Civil Guard Service for the Protection of Nature (SEPRONA), which was in charge of the investigations. The offenders were not located.
The inclusion of the wolf in the list of protected species was decided in September last year by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, and it reaped the frontal rejection of the governments of the Northwest, including that of the Principality, and of the agricultural and livestock sector.