{"id":10610,"date":"2015-10-14T06:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2015-10-14T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:59:53","slug":"cecil-lion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/cecil-lion-2","title":{"rendered":"The Dentist Who Killed Cecil The Lion Will Not Be Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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The animal was lured out of Hwange National Park, shot with a compound bow. The lion lived for another 40 hours until the hunters shot him with a gun. The hunters then skinned, beheaded it and tried to destroy the GPS collar it had for an Oxford University research project. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>There was a lot of publicity surrounding the event<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Celebrities weighed in; TV host\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/video\/2015\/jul\/29\/jimmy-kimmel-emotional-death-cecil-lion-video\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel had an emotional\u00a0monologue about the story<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Palmer repeatedly insisted that he did not know that Cecil was a famous and protected lion, he added that he was following the local guides &#8211; &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt. \u00a0I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; he said &#8211; but that did not stop people from being angry at him. People were wondering whether he was going to be charged with a crime. Now, Opa Muchinguri, Zimbabwe\u2019s minister of environment, water, and climate, has finally answered that question.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10611\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/p02y9g69.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/p02y9g69.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/p02y9g69-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/p02y9g69-85x48.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/976x549\/p02y9g69.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">{adinserter CNP5}<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Palmer is not going to be extradited<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palmer will not be charged in the lion\u2019s death. Officials had previously said they wished to extradite and charge him. He said he would cooperate, but he claimed that he was never contacted by authorities. This was not the first time Palmer had gotten in trouble for hunting. Court documents show that a man named Walter Palmer illegally killed a black bear in Wisconsin and plead guilty to making false statements knowingly to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He was sentenced to one-year of probation and a fine of about $3,000. \u00a0Though Palmer managed to get away with Cecil\u2019s killing, two Zimbabweans were charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10612\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/gethumb.details.jpeg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/gethumb.details.jpeg 614w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/gethumb.details-600x403.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/gethumb.details-85x57.jpeg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ziaruldeiasi.ro\/app\/gethumb.details.php?id=164175&amp;w=640&amp;h=480\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Tourists are still welcome in Zimbabwe, but&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Muchinguri says that there has already been a lot of coverage on the killing. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you talk to him, tell him that tourists are welcome here,&#8221; she said. But she has one condition: &#8220;No hunting, though.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10613\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/150805-cecil-the-lion-jpo-428a_eb012a38a72e0031c81cdcaa833636bd.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/150805-cecil-the-lion-jpo-428a_eb012a38a72e0031c81cdcaa833636bd.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/150805-cecil-the-lion-jpo-428a_eb012a38a72e0031c81cdcaa833636bd.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/150805-cecil-the-lion-jpo-428a_eb012a38a72e0031c81cdcaa833636bd.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/YubF6aidktQ\/maxresdefault.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palmer may not have gotten charged, but he faced civilian justice. The backlash was so severe that Palmer had to shut down his office and go into hiding for a while. There were protesters outside the building when he returned to work. His Facebook and Yelp pages were being flooded with anger. Twitter\u2019s #WalterPalmer hashtag was full of hate and there is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1040002419352406\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with over 17,000 members shaming him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/cecil-lion\">SEE ALSO:\u00a0The Entire Internet Is Enraged Over The Killing Of A Beloved Lion In Zimbabwe.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet broke when US dentist Walter Palmer killed Zimbabwe\u2019s beloved Cecil the Lion in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the 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