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A poacher threatened forest officials with a chainsaw, and they shot him

Forest officials and police detain suspect in illegal logging following harassment, chainsaw threat and shootingreports BTV.

This happened on the land of the village of Vrachesh on March 11.

A team from the Forest Agency noticed a jeep loaded with wood, which descended from a dirt road to the Hemus Motorway after the second tunnel in the direction of Varna.

115 acts of violations were drawn up by the forest inspectors in two days

6.50 cubic meters of firewood, two motor vehicles, one cart and one chainsaw were seized


Although the offender tried to escape again on a dirt road, the jeep crashed in deep snow. He got off it a man with a chainsaw who threatened the foresters. He did not stop after a warning shot in the air. Two stop cartridges at his feet followed.

The poacher was subsequently treated.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in the last four days 4,700 inspections were carried out by the teams of the state forest enterprises and the Executive Forest Agency. 22.50 cubic meters of wood, 5 carts and 3 chainsaws were seized.

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