a pack of wolves spotted in the middle of the street in Modane

A pack of wolves was filmed during the weekend of Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 November, in a residential area of ​​Modane (Savoie) by residents. In the images, six animals walk in a single file. “I didn’t think they came down to here so there’s curiosity too“, confides one of them, who does not say to himself”at all“scared. The wolf settled down in the Haute Maurienne mountains, and its forays into town have been recurring for several years. “They go down a bit, (…) maybe they are looking to eat in the garbage cans, or they are looking for the deer which also circulate in Modane at night“, thinks a resident.

Regarding the cohabitation of wolves and breeders, the mayor, Jean-Claude Raffin, gave instructions last March to the population, but admits to being helpless. “Today he has questions, no longer worry. We must all be able to answer these questions together, and today the local mayor, like my colleagues from neighboring municipalities, do not have the answers.“, he explains. According to the French Office for Biodiversity, 5,000 observations have been made since the wolf returned to France in the 90s. No confrontation with humans has yet been made. noted.