Raising awareness against the proliferation of rabbits through advertising posters in twelve municipalities east of Montpellier (Hérault) has turned into a pitched battle for ten days. On my right, Jean Luc Meissonnier, the mayor (various right) of Baillargues. On my left, the Animalist Party. In the viewfinder of the latter, explicit visuals on which the elected iconoclast points out the danger of rabbits which dig, graze, multiply at high speed, endanger agricultural plantations and railway embankments.
And he takes advantage of this, the ultimate provocation, to give the recipe for the good old… rabbit stew. “It’s about awareness, not provocation. I only responded to the call for mobilization launched by the prefect himself,” said the elected official, a former raseteur of the Camargue races, known for his clear-cut positions.
The mayor also wants to organize whippings
“The Animalist Party does not think that it would make Baillarguois laugh that their local taxes are used for the Mayor's jokes. The recipe that we are proposing to the Baillarguois is to put together an electoral list to regulate their councilor in the next municipal elections,” responds in the same tone Eddine Ariztéguy, leader of the animalist party of Montpellier.
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Number two in the movement on the European list, he is in favor of the abolition of hunting and non-lethal management of animals, i.e. a more ethical and sustainable approach to cohabitation with wildlife. He also denounces the hypocrisy of the State which allows the slaughter of the natural predators of the European rabbit. Jean Luc Meissonnier persists and signs. He even suggests the organization, after captures, of sea urchins in his town, like the sea urchins of the coast, where we enjoy sea urchins.