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Brigitte Bardot on the front line to save Maurice le sanglier

2020-06-17T20:23:03.692Z


The actress asked Monday the prefect of Corrèze to reverse his decision which prohibits a woman from keeping this wild animal.


Save Maurice! It is not the name of a rescue film about an orca, but the call of Brigitte Bardot to save a domesticated boar from Corrèze. The 85-year-old actress asked the prefect of Corrèze on Monday to reconsider her decision not to authorize a Corrézienne to keep the animal, named Maurice, which could be euthanized by court decision.

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The judicial fate of the wild boar could have been known on May 20, but the penal composition, provision allowing to avoid a lawsuit, envisaged at the judicial court of Tulle had been postponed because of confinement and the animal is still in its enclosure at its mistress, in the commune of Jardin (Corrèze).

According to local press and the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, Sylvia Bachellerie had collected the animal in 2014, then a few days old and injured, outside her home. She had looked after him and then tried to return him to nature, but the wild boar never wanted to leave. Six years later, he became a beast of a hundred kilos. After an anonymous denunciation in 2019, Ms. Bachellerie asked the prefecture of Corrèze for authorization to keep a wild animal, which was refused "because of the illegal origin of the boar," according to the Foundation. And justice could now order that Maurice be euthanized.

"A human solution"

It is "for the survival of this animal" that Brigitte Bardot, eponymous president of the Foundation, asked the prefect to reconsider the request for detention filed by the owner of Mauritius. "My Foundation does not aim to endorse the keeping of wild animals by individuals, on the contrary (...). Here, however, it is too late to rehabilitate this animal in the wild and we must intervene so that a human and satisfactory solution is found for everyone , wrote Ms. Bardot in an open letter. "While the Ministries of Ecology and Agriculture have provided exemptions regarding the possibility of holding a single boar, why refuse to grant one and condemn this animal to death?" .

The owner has launched an online petition, "Sauvez Maurice", which has collected some 112,000 signatures to date as well as a kitty to help defray legal costs.

Source: lefigaro

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