Between 1,000 and 1,500 hunters gathered in Prades on Saturday to denounce political decisions banning glue hunting and that of the turtledove.
Eddie Puyjalon, president of the Movement for Rurality, denounces on Europe 1 "the bad publicity" made to hunters and to rurality in general.
No less than a thousand hunters gathered on Saturday in Prades, a small town in the Pyrénées-Orientales and stronghold of the Prime Minister.
In this city led by Jean Castex until this summer, the demonstrators came to cry out their anger and denounce the ban on glue hunting, as well as that of the turtledove.
These hunters reproach, among other complaints, the Prime Minister for not having kept his promises.
"Castex did not keep his word"
"For 30 years, we have only lost things because each time, we cut a part of our activity", indignant Eddie Puyjalon, president of the Movement for rurality.
"To make it clear, the Prime Minister made a commitment by saying 'I will get you a quota to allow slime hunting this season'. There was confidence in this Prime Minister who comes from the rather rural world and who is mayor of a small town. It is clear that everyone was wrong and that he did not keep his word. "
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But beyond this double ban, the demonstrators want to warn about the political decisions that they consider systematically taken against them.
"It is fed up with the rural world in general," insists Eddie Puyjalon.
"We no longer want to assume this unhealthy propaganda which points the finger at the farmer, the hunter, the rural, as if we had come back to the days of the buggers and the bumps. No, we are not the bumps and the bumps. We are. responsible people, nature lovers and we don't deserve the bad publicity given to us by people who live off nature. We don't live off nature, we live on nature. "