While they were posing during a photo shoot for the Cocarde d'or, Camargue racing event, three bulls fled from the arenas of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), according to France 3 Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur .
One of them started a real chase with the manadiers, crossing the Rhône until reaching the neighboring town of Fourques.
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Refugee in a grove difficult to access, the emergency services had to use a drone to locate the animal and capture it, said the departmental fire service. From the start of the alert, the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône had asked the Arlésiens to be
"vigilant"
and to get to safety until the first two animals were captured. In its mad rush, the animal injured a 69-year-old woman in the shoulder, without its life-threatening prognosis.