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Head of the Rural Alliance list for the European elections on June 9, Jean Lassalle and his teammate Willy Schraen were “in resistance” in Cabannes on Friday, alongside the president of the Ariège hunters Jean-Luc Fernandez.
Debate on large predators in Les Cabannes, visit to the only agricultural methanization unit in Ariège in Saint-Félix-de-Tournegat: Jean Lassalle, head of the Rural Alliance list in the running for the Europeans, and his teammate, the boss of hunters Willy Schraen, went to meet the “Ariège resistance fighters”.
“If there is still a possible resistance, it is that of the mountaineers, because the mountaineers have never given up, never, in any battle […]. We are in a world that is increasingly artificialized, increasingly inhuman, financialized to the extreme,” said the candidate. “Capital was a good thing, we knew how to use it, but today it is is a financialization that destroys everything, down to the soul. There is nothing left, but today I feel the smile of all those who welcome us […]”.
“We want to rediscover the notion of a Europe of nations, that of De Gaulle”
For the two candidates, the observation is clear, “the European model must take a 90-degree turn and become what it was again”.
“Cultural identity is something important,” says Willy Schraen, “and what we want is for Europe to return to what it was, that is to say the Treaty of Rome, peace and freedom, and that we stop making this entry into our lives with a kind of list of prohibitions which does not stop increasing What is the human being who can live with 400,000. standards to be put in place? What we want is to rediscover the notion of a Europe of nations, a founding Europe, that of General De Gaulle, where everyone retains their specificities.
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Among the key themes of this meeting, Willy Schraen discussed the problem of large predators alongside Jean-Luc Fernandez, the president of the Ariège hunting federation.
“When a wolf shows up, it’s not to ask the shepherd for an autograph”
“We are not Americans. In France, we do not have free lands where no one lives, like in many places in the world. Here, we have a very strong presence in terms of bears and which is starting to be very worrying in terms of wolves, and we all understand that when a wolf shows up near a flock, it is not to ask the shepherd for an autograph.”
For the boss of the hunters Willy Schraen, we must return to “more pragmatic” things. “That there are a few wolves and a few bears in this territory, we completely agree, it is part of biodiversity, but we are not going to bend a generation of shepherds, or even worse, because we will end up by having an accident. You have to find your senses.”
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“Technocratic, bureaucratic, discriminatory and liberticidal”, the message is clear, “Europe must change, return to legislative sovereignty and its fundamentals”. A movement “which is also growing in all countries of Europe”, affirm the two candidates before concluding: “When you have people from real life on your list, you immediately understand the problems. We are the candidates of the real countryside, the one where we proudly take out the merens”.
