The Paris police chief has ruled on a case concerning camels in the capital. Laurent Nuñez on Wednesday proposed to the organizers of a camelid parade planned for Saturday around the Eiffel Tower to go to the Parisian woods of Vincennes or Boulogne, which are more suitable.
This alternative was, however, refused by the organizer. Also, taking “note with great regret of the refusal made by the organizer to plan its camelid parade in a more suitable location”, Laurent Nuñez “is therefore forced to prepare a ban order”, announced the prefecture of Paris police. “The event will however remain possible in the woods of Vincennes or Boulogne, initially proposed”.
Dromedaries, camels, llamas and alpacas on the program
The French Federation for the Development of Camelids in France and Europe had planned to parade around fifty dromedaries, camels, llamas and alpacas on Saturday between the Quai de Seine in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides and the Unesco headquarters, all located in the 7th arrondissement of the capital.
One way, organizer Christian Schoettl explained on Tuesday, was to support “the cause of the dromedary in the French capital of human rights”.
But this parade provoked the animal rights association Paris Animaux Zoopolis, which denounced the use of these animals as “objects of entertainment” and “vulgar food resources”.