A perimeter of several hundred hectares forbids vehicles and walkers: a large-scale wild boar hunt took place on Sunday morning, on part of the city of Roanne, in the Loire, and two neighboring communes, we learned from concordant sources.
The entire site "was closed to all traffic, both for vehicles and for walkers", and the peripheral roads had been closed to motor traffic "to avoid collisions with animals", said the prefecture of the Loire in a statement.
150 hunters and 50 "trackers" mobilized
This administrative beat is "following the numerous reports of significant damage on meadows and crops, but also in individuals, and traffic accidents due to the presence of wild boar," the source said.
The operation, mobilizing 150 hunters and 50 "trackers" (responsible for folding the game to the shooters), according to the police, took place on an area corresponding to the northeast quarter of the city of Roanne, where is located a penitentiary center. It also took place on a part of the communes of Perreux and Vougy from which it is separated by the Loire river.
Twenty slaughtered boars
About twenty boars were slaughtered and "many others were seen, confirming the necessity of the action undertaken", welcomed the prefecture. Dozens of police and gendarmes were mobilized to block roads, restrict parking and traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians, for this large-scale operation presented as a first in the sub-prefecture of the north of the Loire.
Bruno Barriquand, the Roanne manager of Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV), for his part described as a "serious mistake" a beating "led on the neighborhood of the Park and the Gravières de Matel, a Natura 2000 site reserved for the promenade and the discovery of nature ".