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| HOy speaks, and El Mundo called it, "an irresponsible trip, made at the most inopportune moment." The king's shooting elephants. In 2009 a court dropped charges against the three authors of a caricature that depicted Juan Carlos on a hunting trip in Russia where he allegedly shot dead a drunken circus bear. |
This king respected for helping steer the country to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, but now he is like a shadow from past.
Juan Carlos has suffered a troublesome few months marked by an embarrassing corruption scandal implicating his son-in-law, the Duke of Palma, Inaki Urdangarin.
According to AFP Spain's King Juan Carlos, patron of a wildlife charity, faced fire yesterday for making an expensive hunting trip to Botswana while his country struggles with a recession.
Juan Carlos, 74, had urgent surgery on his hip after breaking it on the visit, which left him recovering in a Madrid hospital. But his condition was overshadowed by rare criticism of him for the reported hunting trip with drunk.
The palace would not confirm that Juan Carlos was on a hunting trip but did nothing to deny widespread media reports that he went to Botswana, a popular elephant-shooting destination, for a big-game hunt.
A petition on the online forum Actuable listed 40,000 signatures urging the king to give up his presidency of the Spanish WWF.
The Spanish branch of the WWF, which names him as honorary president, said Monday it "will make comments to the royal palace and reiterate its commitment to the conservation of elephants."
People's understanding, compassion for suffering of high mammals grows - because it' s forced to evolution - so that' s why unctuous smile in the middle of large dead bodies now seems, if it's possible, even more grotesque.
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