Will hunters be able to continue hunting on Sundays?
The issue, regularly raised in public debate following accidents, is coming to the executive table.
The Secretary of State for Ecology, Bérangère Couillard, must make known the government's position on Monday at 11 a.m.
She will go to the Loiret, to meet the agents of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) to make a statement.
Safety in natural areas has become a very divisive subject, between supporters and despisers of hunters.
An Ifop poll published Monday by Actu.fr reveals that 80% of French people want hunting to be banned on Sundays.
Only 30% of them claim to feel safe during a walk in nature.
This is 16 points less than in July 2009, underlines the survey.
"Niet from niet"
A ban on hunting on Sundays
"is not a taboo subject"
, declared Bérangère Couillard last October.
Before her, environmentalists have made this proposal their hobbyhorse.
A bill has been tabled in the National Assembly by Charles Fournier, aimed at prohibiting hunting "
on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and during school holidays according to the national school calendar
".
But several sources...
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