Luciano Ponzetto who posed with game animals he shot DIES while hunting in Italy

A vet who posed subsequent to a lion he had killed has plunged to his loss of life after slipping on ice and falling 100ft down a ravine on one other shoot.

Luciano Ponzetto, 55, grew to become notorious final 12 months after sharing snaps of his trophy kills. 

Regardless of protesting his innocence, folks despatched him loss of life threats and hate mail, and he died looking birds to eat in hills above the Italian metropolis of Turin. 

A vet who posed subsequent to a lion he had killed has plunged to his loss of life after slipping on ice and falling 100ft down a ravine on one other shoot

Luciano Ponzetto, 55, grew to become notorious final 12 months after sharing snaps of his trophy kills

In response to The Solar, he died after falling into the ravine within the Colle delle Oche in Italy the place he was looking with buddies.  

An Italian police spokesman instructed the paper: 'We had been known as by the mountain rescue providers who had been alerted to the incident by somebody who was out with him.

'His physique was recovered by helicopter and brought to an area hospital.

'It seems to be like he slipped and fell when he was out looking.

'He died immediately and there was nothing that may very well be performed.'

When the images of Ponzetto and the lion appeared on-line, it was in comparison with the enduring case of Cecil the Lion who was shot useless by an American dentist in Zimbabwe in 2015. 

There was little sympathy on-line amongst folks reacting to the information of the Italian vet's loss of life with some saying it was 'karma' that he had died on a hunt.  

Regardless of protesting his innocence, folks despatched him loss of life threats and hate mail, and he died looking birds to eat in hills above the Italian metropolis of Turin

In November final 12 months, Ponzetto's spokesman mentioned he would take authorized motion in opposition to media that picked up on the story, saying it was ruining his repute and claiming it was not within the public curiosity.   

He ran a veterinary clinic close to Turin, and defended his actions by saying being a vet 'just isn't incompatible with looking, both morally or professionally,' in keeping with The Native. 

A hate marketing campaign raged in opposition to him when he was recognised in a photograph posted on the Fb web page of Safari Italian Chapter, the group that organised the safari in Tanzania.  

He's seen pictured with various completely different useless animals together with a hog, deer and leopard.  

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