Cannot delete bridge – “bridge br0 is still up; can’t delete it”

I have the same problem as this guy : Bring down and delete bridge interface that's up

But that solution does not work for me.

I remove all interfaces from the bridge using brctl delif .
I then set the link to down using either ifconfig or ip.
I then try to remove the bridge using brctl br0 "bridge br0 is still up; can't delete it".

The platform is Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi.

Any ideas?

Identical output from ifconfig and ifconfig -a :

br0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 54:e6:fc:89:be:4b
      inet6 addr: fe80::56e6:fcff:fe89:be4b/64 Scope:Link
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:6569 (6.4 KiB)

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:47:0d:a5
      inet addr:192.168.2.29  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
      inet6 addr: fe80::ba27:ebff:fe47:da5/64 Scope:Link
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:25109 (24.5 KiB)  TX bytes:64247 (62.7 KiB)

lo    Link encap:Local Loopback
      inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
      inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

mon.wlan1 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 54-E6-FC-89-BE-4B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:277 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:62535 (61.0 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 80:1f:02:84:f8:3f
      UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:17 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:3828 (3.7 KiB)  TX bytes:1294 (1.2 KiB)

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 54:e6:fc:89:be:4b
      inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
      inet6 addr: fe80::56e6:fcff:fe89:be4b/64 Scope:Link
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:21016 (20.5 KiB)