Jean-Pierre Bastiat, former candidate for mayor of Dax, tried for purchasing protected birds

Former international of the XV of France, former candidate of the right to the municipal elections of 2014 in Dax, Jean-Pierre Bastiat is one of the four defendants called before the Dax criminal court next Thursday. Justice suspects these men in a case of poaching of birds protected and bought by notables of Dacquois.

It is in the program of the hearing of this Thursday, September 17 at the Criminal Court of Dax. Several months ago, the Dax prosecutor’s office announced that it had completed a large-scale poaching case in the “mundillo” of Dacquois. Large-scale, because the investigation had taken years, required the deployment of technological means, and above all concerned the destruction for food consumption of more than 10,000 protected birds, passerines, robins and sparrows.

25 to 30 euros the skewer

These birds were said to have been poached by a man in the forests around Dax and sold at a high price to gourmet lovers of these little animals on the list of protected species.

These small birds were packaged by the poacher by frozen skewers then sold between 25 and 30 euros per skewer. Since 2011, the amount of traffic can be estimated at 50,000 euros.

The poacher had a notebook where he listed his sales and buyers. 10 buyers including 8 could be identified by the gendarmes. The three largest are sent to court. Among these alleged buyers, the one who would be the most important with more than 1000 birds bought according to the survey, it would therefore be the former candidate of the right to the municipal elections of 2014 in Dax and former international dacquois de Rugby: Jean-Pierre Bastiat.

The hearing of the alleged poacher and the 3 alleged buyers is being held this Thursday, September 17 at the Dax Criminal Court.

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