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Nathalie Bot-Jaffray
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Nov. 28, 2024 at 12:45 p.m.
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Macabre and mysterious discovery to say the least this Thursday, November 28, 2024, around 10 a.m., on a road Brittanyin Côtes-d’Armor.
A seal was found dead, in the middle of a road, more than two kilometers from the nearest beach, in the countryside of the town of Ploubazanecnear Paimpol.
In the middle of the asphalt
Photographed by a motorist, the marine mammal was lying there, right in the middle of the asphalt of departmental road 15 leading to the port of Loguivy-de-la-Mer.
Warned, the police of Paimpol moved to the site to manage traffic, but when they arrived, the animal had already been moved to the side of the road by a third party.
How did he get there? The mystery remains…
It could have fallen from the trailer of a rendering service that came to collect the animal on one of the town's beaches. But at the town hall of Ploubazlanec, we certify that:
No technical services team recovered any dead animals this morning. We have no reports. We don't really understand what happened… In any case, it's unprecedented in Ploubazlanec!
Transporting a seal is an offense
The hypothesis that the seal arrived alone, there to die on the road, must be ruled out from the outset.
It's impossible. A seal, an amphibian animal, goes to the beach or shore to rest, reproduce or raise its young. Moreover, when we see them, a distance of 100 meters must be respected so as not to disturb them and avoid the risk of bites and disease transmission.
The seal is a protected species. For any non-sworn person, handling or transporting it is a crimepunished by fines of the environmental police which can be salty.
Two hours after this macabre discovery, not a shadow of an explanation. The gendarmerie had to carry out a small neighborhood investigation and services would come and collect the animal.
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