She backs up, backs up, then, surrounded and not knowing what to do, gives them a shopping bag.
A herd of wild boars forced a Romaine who had just left a supermarket in Rughe, near the Italian capital, to give up her groceries, reviving the debate on the presence in numbers of these wild animals in the cities of the country.
A video posted on social media on Thursday shows the boars approaching at a slow pace.
Four adults and two young people urge the woman who tries in vain to keep them at a distance.
She backs up between the parked cars and ends up dropping her shopping bag, on which the wild boars immediately rush.
The little ones start to eat the contents of the bag in the parking lot, others take what they can and run away.
This is not the first time that wild boars, whose presence has become commonplace in town, sow a little wind of panic.
Last October, the mayor of Rome ordered an investigation after a family of wild boars were shot dead by police in a children's playground near the Vatican.
The event had elicited awe-inspiring reactions from animal rights activists.
The whole of Italy is invaded by wild boars. After the episode of the playground, Coldiretti, the country's leading association of farmers, claimed that the population had doubled in Italy in ten years to reach two million heads. These animals, underlined the association, “can measure more than 1.70 m long, weigh up to 200 kg and have fangs up to 30 cm, being therefore comparable to real weapons, capable of inflicting fatal wounds. to humans and animals, while also being tools of devastation across crops and orchards ”.
Without counting road accidents: wild boars cause nearly 10,000 per year. As in France, they
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' venture increasingly into town in search of food. The wild boar is however extensively hunted in Italy between September and January, especially in Tuscany and Umbria, where it is a commonly cooked meat.