Brigitte Bardot asked the prefect of Corrèze on Monday to reconsider her decision not to authorize a Corrézienne to hold a domesticated boar, which could be euthanized by court order. The legal fate of this animal named Maurice could have been known on May 20, but the criminal composition, a provision allowing to avoid a trial, provided for in the Tulle court had been postponed because of the confinement and the animal is still in its enclosure. with his mistress, in the commune of the Jardin, in Corrèze.
A hundred kilogram beast
According to the local press and the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, Sylvia Bachellerie had collected the animal in 2014, then a few days old and injured, outside her home. She had looked after him and then tried to return him to nature, but the wild boar never wanted to leave. Six years later, he became a beast of a hundred kilos. After an anonymous denunciation in 2019, Ms. Bachellerie asked the prefecture of Corrèze for authorization to keep a wild animal, which was refused due to the illegal origin of the boar, according to the Foundation. And justice could now order that Maurice be euthanized.
A petition with more than 100,000 signatures
It is "for the survival of this animal" that Brigitte Bardot, eponymous president of the Foundation, asked the prefect to reconsider the request for detention filed by the owner of Mauritius. “My Foundation does not aim to endorse the keeping of wild animals by individuals, on the contrary. Here, however, it is too late to rehabilitate this animal in the wild and we must intervene to find a human solution that is satisfactory for everyone, writes Ms. Bardot in an open letter. While the Ministries of Ecology and Agriculture have provided exemptions regarding the possibility of holding a single boar, why refuse to grant one and condemn this animal to death? "
The owner launched an online petition, "Sauvez Maurice" which has collected some 112,000 signatures to date as well as a kitty to help defray the costs of the law.
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