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In Rouen, the foxes play their heads in court

2020-09-01T04:21:15.069Z


The fate of 1,430 goupils, threatened with slaughter by a prefectural decree, will be decided Wednesday by the administrative court of Rouen, seized by p


Wednesday September 2, there should be a crowd in front of the administrative court of Rouen (Seine-Maritime).

Defenders of animal rights have made an appointment on social networks to come and plead the cause of the foxes in the department, threatened by a prefectural decree authorizing the slaughter of 1,430 specimens by the end of the year.

Even Brigitte Bardot went there with her open letter to the prefect, evoking "an excess of zeal and misplaced power" and threatening the representative of the State "with a murderous rant" if he did not go back .

This decree, taken on July 20 despite the unfavorable results of the public inquiry among the population, has already been challenged by a summary suspension on August 20, still before the same court, by the One Voice association.

Used to this type of procedure (last year in the Eure where a comparable decree had been canceled), the association has not succeeded this time in making its arguments heard.

I need you !

pic.twitter.com/ahnMf6wawt

- BRIGITTE BARDOT (@brigitte_bardot) August 27, 2020

"We were very surprised", assures Me Arielle Moreau, lawyer for One Voice.

"The judge did not question the figures put forward by the prefecture, giving the impression that it was up to us to prove that the foxes were not in too high a number", is surprised. -she hoping that the new summary filed this time by four other associations for the defense of wildlife will not meet the same fate.

"There is an emergency", assures Muriel Arnal, president of One Voice.

“The samples have already started.

We attack the common heritage without any serious justification.

"

A version widely contested by Alain Durand, the president of the Federation of Hunters of Seine-Maritime, accused of putting pressure on the Prefect, in particular to protect farmed game.

"We are not talking about hunting here, but taking away from a population of foxes which has increased, in particular during the period of confinement", he assures us.

The court therefore decided that the foxes were too numerous in Seine-Maritime.

The massacre planned by @ Prefet76 will come to an end for the 1430 individuals concerned.

Maybe we will win the action for annulment but they will be dead #JAimeLesRenards # LaChasseUnProblèmeMortel pic.twitter.com/lRt7sgWUSh

- One Voice (@onevoiceanimal) August 20, 2020

Tells him that each year, around 10,000 foxes, a species considered "likely to cause damage" by the Environmental Code, are already hunted or trapped in the department.

“This decree will only restore this figure by December.

Because we are not in the world of Care Bears.

If nothing is done, the fox will quickly become a problem for everyone because it is also found near homes, in town, where it can carry diseases that are dangerous for humans.

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Words that make Muriel Arnal jump.

It considers above all the fox as an auxiliary of the environment and agriculture with its capacity to feed on rodents.

“The fox population does not need to be hunted to self-regulate.

But it competes with hunters on their playing field. And they don't like it.

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Two irreconcilable visions of nature that the administrative tribunal will have to decide between.

Till next time…

Source: leparis

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