In September 2023, departmental councilor Jean-François Nativel created controversy by posting a video of a shark in agony after being caught by him. This Friday, November 29, 2024, the vice-president of the Commission for Territorial Development and Ecological and Inclusive Transition at the Department, created an outcry after the publication of a comment on his social networks where he seemed to approve the regulation of whales in the waters of Reunion Island. (Photo: www.imazpress.com)
On November 28, 2024, it was a post on the networks that alerted animal protection associations. On his Facebook page, the vice-president of the Commission for Territorial Development and Ecological and Inclusive Transition in the Department, salutes the courage of a bull shark fisherman in the south of the island.
“Our southern hunters have talent”; “a warlike act”; “The stunned animal got tangled in the line of the arrow and the buoy, sank to the bottom, and it was not easy to finish.” So many words used by the elected official on his Facebook page to congratulate the fisherman
– “You don't think you're saying that well” exclaims Jean-François Nativel –
A publication which generated more than 260 comments in a few days. One of them calls for the regulation (the politically correct word for “killing”) of whales in the waters of Reunion, because their “number increases every year”.
To which Jean François Nativel responds: “you don’t think you’re saying that well.”
The elected official then praises the merits of countries which practice “reasoned hunting of species which reproduce by the thousands each year”. Enough to make associations jump again but also the famous journalist Hugo Clément. In a post, the latter wonders if he and the elected official from Reunion “really breathe the same air”.
– The elected official responsible for the ecological transition pinned on Instagram –
The departmental advisor, vice-president of the Commission for Ecological and Inclusive Transition in the Department, is thus pinned by Vikitamédia on Instagram.
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– Jean-François Nativel sworn enemy of sharks –
As a reminder, a little over a year ago, Departmental Councilor Jean François Nativel created controversy in a video posted on social networks. “Come on, the suffering will soon be over my little shark, you'll end up in little pieces once we put you on the pontoon”, we could hear him say to a shark. tiger that he had just caught
Several associations reacted strongly to denounce his behavior. Sea Shepherd France wrote in particular: “The staging that Jean-François Nativel lends himself to on the networks is unacceptable and morally reprehensible in view of the massacre of tiger and bulldog sharks, the toll of which continues to increase on the coasts of Reunion. (706 sharks killed since 2011).”
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