Singer Stone urges Reims to stop its “cruel methods”. “The pigeons are killed by implosion of their lungs in these boxes,” Stone specifies in the association’s press release.

The city promises that one of these two methods will be put into practice before the end of the year, in order to permanently put the gassing technique behind it. According to singer Stone, the only alternative to avoid unnecessary suffering is the installation of dovecotes to control births.