Reports of a large black predator, believed to be a leopard or a panther , stirred fear and heightened police activity in the Dupnitsa area after it was reportedly sighted close to the village of Krainitsi. According to local officials, the animal was spotted only a few hundred meters from the last houses of the settlement. The alarm was raised by Krainitsi’s mayor, Desislav Nachov, who received the signal from a villager. The witness claimed he encountered the animal yesterday afternoon in a