Restless Sunday, in a district of Strasbourg! From morning until very late evening, the inhabitants of the Danube eco-district lived to the rhythm of a wild boar which had strayed under their windows.
“He was very calm. We were even told that he was there very early and that children had passed by him without worry ”, recounts to 20 minutes Cindy Le Diberder. The vice-president of the SPA of the Alsatian capital went to the scene shortly after 7 pm, “when our switchboard began to explode because we were told that hunters wanted to shoot him”.
A version contested by the lieutenant of louveterie Stéphane Reisser. “There was never any question of shooting him, you can’t do just anything in an urban environment,” he says. “But what is true is that we had a rifle in case the animal loaded. But the boar hasn’t moved too much. “He stayed in his little grove, even prepared his bed and went to bed,” says Cindy Le Diberder.
A wild boar in the Danube Eco-district in #Strasbourg ! pic.twitter.com/URlWJ8XhAy
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This relative immobility allowed the firefighters of Molsheim, equipped with a hypodermic rifle, to try to put him to sleep using darts. Missed ! Two shots missed the target and the other two did not completely lay the animal down. “At one point, it was more than 10:30 p.m., we said to ourselves that we had to go”, continues the lieutenant of wolves, who threw himself on the wild boar “of 55 kg” with two colleagues. Tied up, he could then be anesthetized by a veterinarian on site. Before being transported and released in the nearby forest of Neuhof.
Return to sender? Stéphane Reisser has been asking himself the question since last night. The behavior of the mammal appealed to him. “He wasn’t afraid of human beings, as if he was used to it, that’s not normal. This is only a hypothesis but I tell myself that someone from the corner could have raised him in a garden, I do not know where… ”