Louis-Baptiste Brutel lost thirteen sheep following an attack by a wolf. He talks about his feelings and his anger and asks everyone to put themselves in his place.
Louis-Baptiste Brutel is one of the sheep breeders who was most affected by the latest wolf attacks. Fifteen sheep were affected and thirteen died. The man settled outside the family framework by creating his farm ex nihilo, in Bassoncourt. He started from nothing and invested himself in his business 7 days a week. He hasn't taken leave since 2014, so when he finds his sheep dead or disembowelled, he no longer knows how to make himself heard.
He is all the more angry because his operating system is virtuous. It's organic. The lambs are raised on grass with ewes in the sheepfold for only two months of the year and their ration is based on clover from the farm and barley from Bassigny. Furthermore, in winter, part of his troop grazes with cereal growers to eat 250 ha of plant cover.
“The wolf kills to kill”
Louis-Baptiste Brutel had already been a victim of the wolf in 2020, the year his sheep workshop was created. Even if he welcomes the latest announcements from Régine Pam, the prefect (daily jhm of January 16), he deplores the false ideas surrounding the wolf: “No, he does not kill for food. He kills for the sake of killing.” Its other difficulty is the indifference of the Administration for many months. He says: “If the wolf is not killed, I will be forced to stop farming.”
While waiting for the action plan of the Prefecture and the DDT to be implemented, he has “the feeling that the Administration has long worked against breeders and especially for the wolf”. He judges the Administration to be very far removed from the field and the reality of breeders.
-He says: “I had to collect the corpses, catch the injured with a headlamp and euthanize those who were not going to survive.” He asks that everyone put themselves in their place and above all “stop commenting when you know nothing about breeding”. Moreover, he invites anyone to come and euthanize their animals, calm the panicked troop and witness the abortions which will follow one another.
“A baseless ideology”
Ironically, Louis-Baptiste Brutel says he is “perhaps too sensitive. I would need training to tolerate that.” Very moved, he believes that no one realizes the impact of the attacks on breeders and asks two chilling questions: “Is the life of a wolf worth more than that of a breeder? What compensation for a breeder at the end of a rope? » He is also worried about the consequences on the sheep industry with young people who will not settle and will prefer to return the land to produce cereals.
As if to support the prefectural decisions, the man concludes: “No one understands the dangerousness of the weapon that the State released into the wild. It's a weapon that kills and I'm not ready to experience what's happening in the Alps. The wolf is a baseless ideology.”
Frédéric Thévenin
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