LREM MEP Pascal Canfin denounced Tuesday a "sham" by the president of the National Federation of Hunters Willy Schraen, which would consist in posing as a defender of rurality.
In a book that appears on Tuesday, Willy Schraen condemns “animal terrorists” and other “new green fighters”.
"In no case can we think that hunting would be representative of rurality"
For Pascal Canfin, former director general of WWF France and ex-member of the ecologist party EELV, "his remarks are of the order of controversy, caricature, and somewhere of imposture", he considered on France Inter.
“Because when he does not defend hunting, he defends rurality”, he noted. However, out of “13 million rural people in France, there are a million hunters, and in this million hunters, a large part are urban, who have a second home, who have a hunting license. So in no case can we think that hunting would be representative of rurality as a whole in France ”.
For Pascal Canfin, like Willy Schraen “knows that defending hunting and in particular certain practices which are probably illegal under European law, in particular hunting with slime, is not very popular, he prefers to wrap himself in other clothes. , those from rural areas, much more attractive ”.
He condemns the expression "ayatollahs of ecology"
Asked whether he did not feel targeted when the Minister of Justice Eric Dupont-Moretti prefaces Willy Schraen's book by attacking the “ayatollahs of ecology”, Pascal Canfin refuted, because he did not “ (himself) absolutely does not see himself as someone who will create controversy ”.
He said "condemn this expression", "used for years and years by those who saw absolutely nothing coming and were generally climate-skeptical", but wanted to "relativize": Eric Dupont-Moretti prefaced the book "When he was not a minister", and he is "not minister in charge of these questions" of ecology.
He refutes the possibility of an anti-ecological tendency in the government
He also refuted the possibility of an anti-ecological tendency within the government, arguing the "series of measures" presented by the new Prime Minister Jean Castex in his general policy speech in July, measures "which had never been taken by no previous government ”.
As for a possible ambiguity on the part of Emmanuel Macron vis-à-vis the glue hunt, the MEP argued that "a decision will be taken by the European Court of Justice: either (this hunt) complies with European law or it is not ”.
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