A display that is not just symbolic.
In the heart of the town hall of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), three documents placed on the same level have adorned the walls of the wedding hall since Tuesday.
Alongside the declaration of human and citizen rights and that of the rights of the child, we now find the universal declaration of animal rights.
Fresnes thus becomes the first commune in France to display in the town hall this rather old text, proclaimed in Paris on October 15, 1978 before its revision in 1989.
This declaration, without legal significance but with a strong philosophical dimension – it proclaims in particular in its article 1 that “all animals have equal rights to existence within the framework of biological balances” – will also be displayed “in the twelve schools of the city and in the premises of the municipal police,” indicates Marie Chavanon, the mayor (PS) of Fresnes.
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