Who Killed Cachou?

In April 2020, a five-year-old brown bear named Cachou was found dead in the Aran Valley. The initial assumption was that he had been killed in a fight with another bear. The truth was darker: Cachou had been deliberately poisoned with antifreeze.

Born in the Pyrenees as part of a bear reintroduction programme, Cachou was a protected animal. His death was not an accident. It was premeditated.

This single documentary from Catalan broadcaster 3Cat follows the police investigation that unfolded over the course of a year, tracing the evidence, the suspects, and the broader forces that may have put Cachou in danger. Structured with the rhythm of a criminal thriller, it reconstructs how investigators worked to establish what happened and who was responsible.

Behind the investigation lies a deeper conflict. The bear reintroduction programme has long been a flashpoint between rural communities in the Pyrenees and conservation policies designed far from the valleys where they take effect. Cachou's poisoning did not happen in isolation. It emerged from a landscape already shaped by tension, resentment, and competing ideas about who the land belongs to.

A precise, quietly urgent film about a crime that opened up something much larger.