Thionville police court, Thursday 23 September. Surprisingly, the courtroom sees a plethora of lawyers, defendants. At the mention of the first file, the feeling sets in without delay that two worlds will confront each other without ever really understanding each other. The scene is set in the circle of hunters.
On the one hand, the land, the camaraderie, the habits and customs of a universe in contact with nature. On the other, the law and the attachment to its respect, guaranteed by the public prosecutor. During the trial, her representative will clearly never move her line one iota: “You have been outlawed, illegally, custom does not rule. ”
The case began with a denunciation in September 2017. A “mole” indicates the habits of a Moselle hunting society which in particular refrains from shooting sows weighing more than 45 kg. Like a moral code applied by a good number of hunters since Methuselah, but which, at the time of the facts, was prohibited by the departmental hunting management plan of the Moselle. We do not sort the wild boars, except for the sows and / or leaders, females accompanied by their boars still dependent on them or taking the head of a company, officially spared.
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Contraventions and damages
At the helm, it is the parade of the accused. About ten. Everyone is surprised that justice can reproach them for such behavior in 2017, whereas today, with the new 2021 departmental plan, the watchword is “we shoot everything that moves”. This is because pests do a lot of damage. We must regulate populations drastically, the document states.
Most have a 1re and 5e class (300 € and 38 €), penalties claimed by Anissa Madouri, for the prosecution. The Moselle hunters’ federation and the departmental wild boar damage compensation fund have become civil parties. They are asking for damages and interest 150 € each against the members of the hunting society. Deliberated on November 25.
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