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A wild boar attacks a 10-year-old girl on Gran de Cadaqués beach and injures her leg

2022-08-02T18:53:27.499Z


The mayor of the municipality and the Rural Agents remember that they are wild animals and ask that they neither be fed nor approached to photograph them


Boars in the sports center of Cadaqués.Marta Rodríguez

A wild boar has attacked a 10-year-old girl who was with other minors playing on the Gran de Cadaqués beach (Alt Empordà) this Monday night.

Apparently around ten at night the beach in the center of the town was full of people and one of the boars that usually come down to the area at dusk in search of food ended up hitting the little girl.

She was treated in the first instance by members of the Medical Emergency System (SEM) in situ, later she was transferred to the CAP and to the Figueres Hospital where they sutured the wounds on her leg, everything indicates that they were caused by the fangs.

This Tuesday afternoon municipal officials meet with the Corps of Rural Agents to decide on the actions to follow and prevent this specimen from returning to the beach.

There are several stories that are explained about what happened last night.

There are those who point out that a group of children, including the victim, ran because they were scared when they saw the wild boar and others maintain that the wild boar for some reason got scared and in its flight hit the girl with her nose.

The fact is that the presence of wild boar this summer has become a recurring problem that, for example, according to a waiter, forces locals in the area to keep their rubbish inside to prevent "them from doing damage".

According to a witness, around half past nine at night the minor was playing throwing stones into the water with other children between the

Boia bar

and the stream, in the area at the end of the beach closest to the Consistory, when they saw that a wild boar had come down the stream and reached the beach.

Lots of other people were on the beach at the time.

For some unknown reason, the boar ran away and ended up sinking its fangs into the girl's left leg.

Her relatives, who were a few meters from her, helped her immediately and the SEM, who received the notification shortly before ten o'clock, gave her some initial cures.

About 20 minutes later, she was transferred to the CAP and from there to the Figueres Hospital where they sutured the two wounds, "of lesser severity", according to the health workers.

According to her Health, shortly before one in the morning she was discharged.

Since the spring of 2013 it is common to see wild boars on Portlligat beach or around Cadaqués looking for food, either around the sports center or in the narrow streets of the town.

Although there had been some problem with dogs, they had never attacked a person so far.

The mayor, Pia Serinyana, assures that they have a "serious problem" with the wild boars that come down to the urban area, especially in summer.

"We are in the middle of the Cap de Creus Natural Park, with a brutal drought and they are looking for food and water," she says.

Serinyana regrets what happened to the girl who spent years summering in this picturesque town north of the Costa Brava, “we have spoken with her relatives and they are very concerned because it is a significant injury.

These animals have fangs that can do a lot of damage and that is what happened.

The mayor, who has requested an urgent meeting this afternoon with the Rural Agents, assures that one of the main problems is that there are people who feed them.

"They are not aware that they are wild animals, we are imposing sanctions because otherwise there is no way, but even so they continue to feed them and as long as they find something to eat in the town, they will continue to come."

Serinyana, like the Rural Agents, call on the population to stop feeding and taking photos with the wild boars.

Cadaqués is a small town of about 3,000 inhabitants that in summer has a floating population of about 30,000 people.

In winter, the hunters carry out raids in the mountains and together with the Rural Agents they carry out actions in the peri-urban area and live captures with traps or anesthetic darts in the urban area.

With such a large number of people, the actions are complicated, but now the priority for the mayor "is to prevent the wild boar that attacked the little girl from returning to the beach."

"After what happened we must act quickly and take more drastic measures," she says.

The Corps of Rural Agents, which is in the process of creating the Special Animal Capture Group (which will be in charge of these actions), recalls that "they are wild fauna and can react unpredictably" and warn that feeding them "It causes a change in their behavior and makes them get used to humans and lose their fear of getting closer to inhabited areas."

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Source: elparis

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