In Montpellier, “rurality” in the street against “urban sores”

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Several thousand demonstrators are announced, Saturday, February 11, in reaction to a platform of elected environmentalists calling for “reform” the “bouvine”, a bullfighting activity.

From our correspondent in Montpellier, Henri Frasque

Dhe bullfighters, breeders, farmers, the boss of hunters Willy Schraen, the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, the president of the Paca region Renaud Muselier, the queen of Arles and… 500 horses! More than 10,000 demonstrators are announced in Montpellier on Saturday February 11, at 11 a.m., on the Charles-de-Gaulle esplanade, a stone’s throw from the Place de la Comédie.

Not to protest against the pension reform: these demonstrators will march in the afternoon. But to defend hunting, fishing, agriculture, bullfighting traditions, in short their “way of life” and their “know-how” which they consider threatened by “punitive ecology”. The one embodied, in their eyes, by “elected animalists and ecologists from EELV who want to question whole sections of our traditions and our…