This attack is a first near this urbanized area, 200 meters from the town center. One or more wolves killed 12 goats at Penne-sur-Huveaune in the night from Saturday to Sunday, at the gates of Marseille. The Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture confirms this in a press release, after the analyzes of two agents from the French office for biodiversity at the start of the week. This entitles the owner to compensation. It is established that the attacks were perpetrated in view “of the parts consumed, their mode of consumption and the characteristics of perforations on the neck” animal victims.
– Denis Follenbach
For the mayor, we must learn to live with the wolf
One of the villagers captured two wolves on a thermal camera the day after the attack. Small traces suggest that there are cubs, wolf cubs. For Mayor Nicolas Bazzuchi, the attack confirms what hunters have seen for a year. The wolf is present and he has no more game to eat. “You shouldn’t develop a feeling of worry. It’s not necessarily a shock. You have to learn to live together, to live with the wolf while pushing it back up the hill. Plantations are needed that will allow the game to return. reproduction” such as partridges and rabbits, specifies the ranger who will multiply the night rounds to keep the wild animal higher in the massif. The mayor has embarked on a census of animal owners and an information campaign to encourage the animals to be brought in. Denis Follenbach, game warden and forest ranger, encourages the installation of lights that are triggered by motion detectors. Denis is going to meet the pupils of the commune who are about to return to the forest. His mission will be to reassure them. The wolf does not attack humans.