The plan, presented Monday by Bérangère Couillard, the secretary of state in charge of ecology, disappoints associations which defended the implementation of such a day.
By Rémi Barroux
There will be no day without hunting. In the plan for the safety of hunting presented on Monday, January 9, in Dry (Loiret), by the secretary of state in charge of ecology, Bérangère Couillard, this measure expected by many associations is not in the list of Fourteen proposals put forward by the government. The president of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC), Willy Schraen, will not have to verify his prognosis, he who announced, on Franceinfo, on January 6, that, in the event of an establishment of a day without hunting per week , rurality would be “on fire and blood” within five years.
A statement that makes Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, President of the Bird Protection (LPO) jump, which denounces the absence of this measure in government proposals. “This reaction of the extreme hunting is scandalous. It is not only the” Parisian sores “which are favorable to Sunday not chased since, in rural communities, 75 % of people support this proposal [78 % of all people Questioned according to a survey carried out by Ipsos on behalf of seven associations, including the LPO, from December 13 to 14, 2022 with a thousand people]. President Macron believes that rurality and hunting go together, but this is false, the farmers represent 4 % of hunters, explains Allain Bougrain-Dubourg. The president commits a huge political fault: he asks his ministers to be as close as possible to citizens, but does not hear the opinion of almost 80 % of between them. “
The reaction is also lively on the part of the other associations mobilized against hunting. For One Voice, which is based on another survey (Ipsos, September 2022, with a thousand people), 81 % of French people are for the ban on hunting for two days a week and the entire school holidays. “There is a huge gap between these measures, which will not solve the problem of security, and the expectations of the French, estimates Muriel Arnal, president of the association. And a non-comprehension of the reality of hunting, A hobby that endangers the life of people who do not practice it. “
” a democratic problem “
Faced with criticism, Bérangère Couillard defends the position. “We have decided not to retain this option of a day without hunting. It would not meet the security objective which must be declined every day. And the statistics of the OFB [French Biodiversity Office] Do not show that Sunday is more accident-causing, she explains to the world, adding that other associations of nature practitioners, such as mountain bikers or riders, told him “to be against a ban measure, fearing fearing to be, after the hunters, also victims of future restrictions “.
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