An April Fool's Day in May? A crocodile hunt was improvised Monday at the foot of the old bridge of Bergerac, in the waters of the Dordogne, to try to catch the fearsome animal that turned out to be a fake.
At the end of the afternoon, the town posted a very serious message on its Facebook page, inviting its inhabitants "to avoid the sector" of the Garrigat quay, in the city center, "closed to traffic following the discovery of an alleged "crocodile"".
Perfect imitation
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A passerby called us because he had seen something resembling this animal in the river," rescuers told AFP. A dozen firefighters, including divers, went to the scene shortly after 16:00, joined by the gendarmerie and the French Office of Biodiversity.
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Using poles and nets to carefully approach the beast, the specialists of the nautical brigade finally emerged from the water, two hours later, a specimen of more than two meters perfectly imitating the morphology of the crocodilidae.
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Unfortunately, the animal did indeed die. Congratulations to SDIS 24, "wrote the municipality once the alert was lifted. Before quickly specifying, photos in support, that the animal was indeed a "fake".