Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Skin imported to Sweden?
Ibrahimovic is said to have killed endangered lions
The lion is critically endangered. Zlatan Ibrahimovic likes to compare himself to the big cat. Now there are reports that the Swedish footballer traveled to South Africa in 2011 to shoot a lion. He then imported trophies from this hunt to his homeland.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is rarely at a loss for big words. “You can tame a lion,” said the exceptional footballer once in an interview, “but you cannot tame Zlatan.” Speaking of a potential fight between himself and a lion, the Swedish national team’s record scorer said: “I would destroy it 100 percent.” Well, if the reports of the “Express presses” true, then Ibrahimovic did just that in 2011.
According to the newspaper, the now 39-year-old shot a lion in South Africa. The predator is on the red list of threatened species, but the hunt is according to the English “Daily Mail” legal, provided that the authorities in South Africa issue the relevant permits. According to research by the “Expressen”, Ibrahimovic is one of 82 people who are said to have imported hunting trophies to Sweden.
The opinionated striker received his hunting license a few months earlier and then shot a lion in South Africa. The male is said to have lived in captivity and then released. The online medium “The South African” writes that the hunt for animals raised in captivity and then released is permitted – “but the moral implications of these acts are nevertheless absolutely devastating”. The According to International Animal Welfare Fund Around 1.7 million hunting trophies were traded worldwide between 2004 and 2014 alone, more than 200,000 of them from endangered species.
“Expressen” also reports that Ibrahimovic imported parts of the lion he had shot to Sweden. Including the skin, the skull and the jaw. It is unclear whether he violated the law, especially since the attacker did not respond to a request from the Swedish newspaper. The criticism of the football idol is growing noticeably.
It is also noteworthy that Ibrahimovic wears a huge lion head as a tattoo on his back. Again and again he publicly compared himself to the big cat, for example when he said that he was recovering from an injury “not like a person, but like a lion”. “The South African” therefore draws an even more shocking conclusion from the allegations: “As far as we know, had to [Ibrahimovic] never shake off gunshot wounds before traveling to a game. “
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