The first hunting weekend in Compiègne did not go as the hunters had expected.
One of their prey, a deer, managed to take refuge in the city by trying to escape the dozens of dogs after it.
There, wedged between a construction site and a high school, the exhausted and breathless animal lies down, tongue hanging out.
Opponents of the hunt with hounds who followed the hunters prevent them from getting their hands on the animal.
According to Stanislas Broniszewski, witness and spokesperson for the association Abolissons la Vénerie Today (AVA), this is not an isolated case: “It's really something that happens several times a year.
[…] The hunting teams with hounds do not hesitate, when the animal they are hunting takes refuge in a housing estate, in a neighborhood, or even in a garden, to return.
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Glimpse safe and sound in the forest an hour later
Once the police arrived on the scene Saturday morning, they set up a security perimeter to prevent the beast from being too stressed.
This tense situation will last for several hours.
Until a net is deployed near him, which frightens the animal.
Stanislas Broniszewski, says: “He ran straight into a fence that belonged to a private high school opposite.
He could have hurt himself or gone into high school.
Then he branched off and through a construction site and he joined the forest.
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The deer was thus able to find its natural environment.
One of the members of the AVA association saw him in the forest a few hours after the incident, safe and sound.
