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The rooster crowing or the smells of liquid manure recognized as "sensory heritage" of our countryside

2021-01-21T16:49:44.963Z


This Thursday, January 21, after a final vote by the Senate, a bill introduces the notion of “sensory heritage” into French law. A text which, for its promoters, is capital for the defense of rurality and its specificities.


Maybe you remember it?

On Monday, December 7, an Ardéchois was sentenced to five months suspended prison sentence, a fine of 300 euros and a three-year ban on carrying a weapon, by the Criminal Court of Privas, for having killed his neighbor's cock. in May 2020. Marcel, the poor bird, had passed from life to death, finished as he was, with an iron bar.

Maurice was luckier.

He passed away with his beautiful death on the island of Oléron.

A few months after the Rochefort Criminal Court rejected the complaint of its owner's neighbors.

A highly symbolic victory for the defenders of rural life.

All the more symbolic as it is at the origin of a bill adopted definitively this Thursday, January 21 by Parliament.

Read also: Sounds of the countryside: the crazy story of the murder of the rooster Marcel

Rooster or cicadas crowing, scent of horse or stable manure ... Parliament adopted on Thursday, by a final Senate vote, a bill introducing the notion of

"sensory heritage"

of the countryside into law French.

At the initiative of the centrist group, the Chamber of Territories approved by show of hands, without modifications, a UDI-Agir bill already adopted unanimously by the National Assembly.

The case was closed in half an hour, the time remaining to the group after the examination of the text relating to sexual crimes against minors.

The Secretary of State in charge of Rurality Joël Giraud welcomed

"a good bill for the defense of rurality",

noting that

"life in the countryside implies accepting some nuisance"

.

While the sounds and scents of the countryside can give rise to various disputes, the sounds and smells characterizing natural spaces are now part of the environmental code.

A consecration which allows them to be inscribed in the common heritage of the nation.

For the rapporteur of the text in the Senate, Pierre-Antoine Levi,

"the symbolism is strong".

And the text

“can be a useful tool for local elected officials on a daily basis to support them in their educational and mediation efforts”

.

The bill also provides for entrusting the regional services of the inventory of cultural heritage with a mission of studying and qualifying

“the cultural identity of the territories”.

Finally, the delivery of a government report on the abnormal neighborhood disturbance is planned.

Source: lefigaro

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