This public meeting, to which all the people concerned by this subject, including the mayors, are invited, is organized by Cambià issa. This association was recently set up by Maryline Taddei, who was seriously injured in the legs by a bull wandering near her home in Bastia.
It was November 7, 2020, in the morning, around 10 a.m., at Signs, a rural district of Bastia. In a wooded area, a few meters from her home, Maryline Taddei is charged by a Taurus. “I started to run but didn’t have time to get back to my portal. I managed to dodge his horns but he hit me with his body and threw me into the air. I fell violently on the ground”, she explains.
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A neighbor, who has heard her calls for help, alerts the emergency services. Maryline Taddei has both broken legs and five torn ligaments. First aid (surgery in Marseille, day hospitalization in Bastia, rehabilitation in Ajaccio and Bastia…) focused on the right leg and lasted for very long months. An operation on the other leg is scheduled for January 14, 2022. “Professor Jaaffar Sbihi, from the Juge clinic in Marseille, who follows me and is used to working on footballer injuries, told me that what I had was very serious and that he had never seen that! “
The consequences are physical but also psychological and material. “I spent three months in a wheelchair. I am a teacher and I can no longer work, I have suffered a significant loss of income. I regret that the CPAM only reimburses me for a small part of my trips to Marseille; retorts that there is a technical platform here, but the surgeon from the Bastia hospital who took care of me told me that this establishment is not suitable for such interventions, continues Maryline Taddei. I also regret the lack of psychological care in the face of such a trauma; I was attacked for no reason by an animal that went wild again. “
She stresses that she was able to count, in this ordeal, on the support of her parents, her two children, her friends, her attending physician, Dr.r Emmanuelle de Gentile-Pasquier, who performed “a remarkable job so that I can be medicalized at home after my accident”.
Maryline Taddei, aware of the seriousness of this public safety issue in stray animals in Corsica, then set off, with the help of friends, in search of other victims and created, this spring, the association Change now! (Change now!)
“Plural solutions”
Change the record now “a worrying increase in recent months in the number of serious bodily accidents in different parts of Corsica, on roads, on beaches, in municipalities. There have been more than ten since November 2020”, including in the city. “Last May in Bastia, a motorcyclist was run over by a straying cattle near the prefecture! Cows arrived in the parking lot of the Falconaja hospital! Straying animals also cause significant material damage,” remarks the president of this association.
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Cambià avà has for objective the defense of the victims of farm animals in wandering in all the urbanized environments and on the roads. She campaigns for improved care for victims who “do not fit into any box” and calls on the public authorities to provide “a general response to what constitutes a real public safety problem because it is estimated that there are between 15,000 and 20,000 stray animals”, indicates Dominique Moneglia, treasurer of the association.
Some of these animals, in a real state of abandonment, return to the wild. They are then out of control and constitute a real danger. Animal straying “is the responsibility of the mayors but they lack financial and technical means and will not be able to solve the problem alone. The State, the Corsican Community and the mayors must engage in a dialogue to find solutions that are plural. is a matter of will “, he adds. Change now “wants to unite and not stigmatize”.
The association, which has a farmer among its members, says it “does not seek to oppose breeders. Animal wandering harms society but also virtuous breeders who respect the rural code, their animals, their profession”.
A great debate
The association also stresses that it does not speak out against animals either and recalls that a beast that “is left on its own is not treated according to the rules of breeding and suffers. We condemn those who usurp the farming profession and profit from this form of animal abuse which creates dangers.”
Members of Cambia Avà met with the mayors of Bastia and Pietrosella, met with the prefect of Haute-Corse and asked to see him again, took part in the demonstration in support of the mayor of Olmi-Cappella on July 24. who filed a complaint after being threatened as a result of the measures he took against the straying of animals.
The association regrets not being associated with the interservice technical meeting that took place on August 2 but continues to mobilize. She will request a hearing from the president of the executive council and the political groups of the Corsican Assembly, and will hold talks with the presidents of the mayors’ associations of Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
In the meantime, Cambià is now holding a big debate this Saturday, September 4 at 4 pm in Linguizzetta. Mayors and other political actors are invited to take part, as well as all those who feel concerned about this societal problem. This public meeting will be followed at 6:30 pm by an aperitif and a supportive musical evening *.
* As the venue for the debate and the evening has not yet been established, those wishing to participate are requested to contact the association.
Due to health constraints, registration for these two events is mandatory. For the evening, dress code: white outfit. Information and registration with the association Cambià issa. Tel. 07.71.73.05.74. Mail: [email protected]. The association is also launching a call for donations. To join: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/cambia-ava/adhesions/formulaire-d-adhesion-a-cambia-ava-1.
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