Paris (AFP)
Le coq Maurice can continue to cheer up: the deputies voted in committee a UDI-Agir bill aiming to protect the "sensory heritage" of the countryside, while litigation is increasing in rural areas.
This text, supported by the Minister of Culture Franck Riester, will be examined in the hemicycle on Thursday January 30 during a day dedicated to the proposals of the centrist group ("parliamentary niche").
Supported by the deputy of Lozère Pierre Morel-à-l'Huissier and co-signed by elected officials of all stripes, this bill intends to protect rural residents from legal actions taken against the "noise and smell" of the countryside, name of "abnormal neighborhood disturbances".
In the eyes of the deputies of the cultural affairs committee, rooster songs, bell sounds and "olfactory emissions from natural spaces and environments" are "an integral part of rural life" and must be included in the heritage code.
This summer, the litigation around the rooster-songster "Maurice" of the Island of Oléron had become the symbol of the conflict between rural and newcomers. Justice had rejected the complaint of the neighbors indisposed by his morning cocorico.
Carried by the benevolent atmosphere of the commission, Mr. Morel-A-L'Huissier offered the assistance of an extract from a song by the Toulon group Aïoli "Touche pas aux cigales", while warning: "It is a little raw ".
The committee also adopted a UDI-Agir bill aimed at modernizing the tools and governance of the Heritage Foundation.
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