Demonstrators in favor of hunting, Saturday September 12 in Prades.

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Several hundred hunters took the start on Saturday morning of a demonstration in Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales) to denounce in particular the ban on glue hunting and defend an idea of ​​rurality.

Responding to the call of several associations, including the Association for the Defense of Traditional Thrush Hunts or the Rurality Movement, the demonstrators symbolically chose the town of which Jean Castex was mayor until his accession to the post of Prime Minister .

"Jean Castex did not keep his word, just like the President of the Republic", deplores Eric Camoin, the president of the Association for the Defense of Traditional Thrush Hunts.

"We had reached an agreement with Castex at the beginning of August to maintain the quota of 22,000 birds to be caught by sticks," he explains, adding that this traditional hunt takes place from October 1 to December 15.

On its site, Eddie Puyjalon's Mouvement de la Ruralité, “castigates a political decision by Emmanuel Macron and the government of Jean Castex.

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The influencer Johanna Clermont in the procession

Demonstrators from ten departments arrived by bus in the small town at the foot of the Canigou massif, to walk from the stadium towards the town hall, of which Jean Castex is still the first deputy.

The Aude winegrowers' union also joined the hunters denouncing in a press release "an almost daily context of attacks against rural areas".

Alongside representatives of hunting associations, we could note the remarkable presence of influencer Johanna Clermont, strong of 126,000 subscribers on Instagram and new face of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) in an advertising campaign that is currently displayed in the Paris metro.

“I am here in a personal capacity.

There is a lot of misunderstanding in relation to the world of hunting, we have to go beyond prejudices ”, launches the young 23-year-old woman.

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Placards could also read, "Do not shoot the hunt", "Hunting is not a sport or a hobby, it is a way of life, a freedom of conscience".

Emmanuel Macron decided at the end of August to suspend for this season the hunting of glue that environmentalists and defenders of birds denounce.

With this gesture, he also responds to the injunctions of the European Commission which, at the beginning of July, gave France three months to put an end to this method of non-selective hunting, prohibited by a directive of 2009 except exemption.

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