The witnesses who witnessed the scene on Saturday afternoon, probably did not quite expect this. A deer in a cage, taken out by firefighters of Val-d'Oise, through the narrow door of a small building in the city center of Pontoise. In particular, a team specialized in animal risks intervened to help the small deer.
It had been alerted around 15:30 pm by residents discovering the animal in the courtyard of an apartment on the ground floor. Nearly two hours of intervention were necessary to capture him. Frightened but safe and sound, he was later released into the forest.
"But how on earth could he get there?"
"But how on earth could he get there?" asked Internet users in comments to a video of the scene shot by a neighbor and broadcast on social networks. The question about this somewhat unusual rescue is indeed worth asking.
The animal was then released into the forest.
The building, located rue Pierre Butin, overlooks neither fields nor woods and the gardens are only interior. Residents of the city, however, mentioned a deer seen in recent days towards the Lavandières, a few hundred meters away.
This Sunday in any case, even the specialists did not know precisely by which path the animal had passed to finally find itself in this embarrassing situation. Which, however, is not entirely unprecedented. "Five years ago, a young deer was already caught at Place du Grand Martroy before being released into the forest," recalls a Pontoisienne.