It was an unusual visit that the Saint-Pierre en Faucigny football stadium received during the night from Sunday to Monday October 28. That of a family of eight wild boars! They returned 300 square meters on the land, “as they would have done in a field”describes Marin Gaillard, the mayor of the town. And if the anecdote makes you smile, it still cost 20,000 euros of work to restore the lawn.
“I had to face the wild boars,” says the president of the football club
Alain Cotton, the club's president, was the first to notice the damage on Monday morning. He immediately notified the town hall, and returned in the evening during the training of the young people who had moved to the other fields. “And there, between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., I had to face the return of these wild boars”he describes. Despite his efforts to make them leave, the animals return. It is ultimately by making a lot of noise that the club team manages to scare them. “We were able to identify where they had gone through, under the fence, and block the passage.”
“This is the first time I’ve seen this.”reacts Marin Gaillard who is not surprised however. “We hear about wild boars and foxes coming closer to cities, and well, it’s happened!” The town hall reacted immediately, and the work began this Wednesday, October 30 “so that the land remains unavailable for as little time as possible”, explains the mayor. Until then, the matches planned on this field of honor will take place with the clubs which were to be hosted. He concludes: “even if the photo of these wild boars can be touching, we would like them not to come back too often.”
