Posted October 12, 2015 7:35 pm by Comments

By Patriot Outdoor News

The Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the Lion with a bow and arrow while hunting near an animal preserve broke no laws and will not face any charges in Zimbabwe, an official from the Robert Mugabe administration said Monday.

Walter Palmer drew international condemnation after shooting the beloved lion near Hwange National park in western Zimbabwe. Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri said in July that Zimbabwean police and prosecutors planned to charge Palmer with poaching, but on Monday she told reporters in Harare that Palmer had not broken the southern African country’s hunting laws and that police and the National Prosecuting Authority had cleared Palmer of wrongdoing.

“We approached the police and then the prosecutor general, and it turned out that Palmer came to Zimbabwe [legally] because all the papers were in order,” Muchinguri-Kashiri said.

Authorities initially suspected Palmer had entered the country on a tourist visa, and they contacted police first, and then the country’s prosecutor-general to investigate the American amateur hunter. Hunting is not permitted if the person entering Zimbabwe only has a tourist visa. But Palmer turned out to have had the correct permits to kill Cecil with his bow and arrow.

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Source:: Patriot Outdoor News

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