With the deconfinement, the hunters were able to resume their hunting activities with hounds .
A hunt had been organized, Saturday, in the national forest of Compiègne, in the Oise.
Two anti-hunting activists ended up in hospital for trying to film the death of a deer.
Disrupted in their practice of hunting with hounds due to containments related to the coronavirus epidemic , the huntsmen are back in the woods. This was the case, Saturday, in the forest of Compiègne, in the Oise, with the crew “La Futaie des Amis” led by its controversial leader, Alain Drach. On the heels of the hunters , around twenty activists from the AVA association (Abolissons la vénerie Today), two of whom were injured while trying to film the killing of a deer.
Barely aged 10 years old, Keely spends most of her Wednesdays and Saturdays in the Compiègne forest with her comrades from AVA, an anti-hunting association of which she has been a member for four years already. Last Saturday, the activists had therefore met in the woods to disrupt the exit of the crew of the La Futaie des Amis game. By disturbing, the activists intend to film, follow the hunters and disturb them enough for the animal being pursued to escape alive. The tensions between pro and anti are constant without however systematically turning into a fight. “The deer is beautiful. Well now he’s dead ”
Saturday, therefore, the hunt had started at 02 h 20. “They found a deer rather quickly, so the animal was chased for nearly 3 hours by the hunters,” says Keely. After all this time, the animal, exhausted, tried to find refuge in a pond. It was from that moment that things got out of hand. “About fifteen militants went into the water shouting to the hunters not to shoot. Despite the risk of injuring us, the deer was shot, ”continues the young woman. “The stag was beautiful. Well now he’s dead ”, even dropped a follower of the crew.
CHASSEACOURRE: ONE DEER KILLED AND 2 PERSONS INJURED
For their 1st hunt of 2017, the hunters kill a deer taking refuge in an icy pond and send 2 people to the emergency room in a surge of violence LET’S END BARBARIA! STAND UP CAMPAIGNS! pic.twitter.com/s 43 cjDTQEq
When the hunters pulled the animal out of the water, some tried to prevent the activists from filming the scene. On the video published by AVA, we can clearly see hunters violating opponents. “A friend of mine was being beaten up so I filmed my phone screaming. There, one of the huntsmen tried to tear off my phone then pushed me and I hit my back in a tree while falling from the embankment, ”says Keely.