Question 10811 — hunting and fishing

Summary

Ms. Ersilia Soudais draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature to the increase in violence against activists documenting hunting, particularly from the Fontainebleau Rally. On Tuesday October 21, 2025, Pierre Rigaux and two other activists followed the hunt along a departmental road in order to document peacefully the practice of hunting with hounds. Pursued by around twenty huntsmen, the deer took refuge in a thicket after crossing the road several times, followed by around thirty dogs, endangering motorists. The hunters then quickly organized to prevent the activists from filming, threatening them verbally and attempting to seize their phones. Pierre Rigaux received a knee from a hunter on horseback, a blow with the handle of a whip, another with a riding bomb, as well as an elbow to the face. Following this violent attack, the activist filed three complaints for assault and attempted theft. He also received three days of total incapacity for work following a hematoma on the nose and rib pain. On November 4, 2025, new similar facts were reported in the forest of Rambouillet, where the Fontainebleau Rally, invited by the Bonnelles Rally, once again obstructed the work of activists who were trying to peacefully document the hunt, thereby illustrating the persistence of a feeling of impunity. These facts do not relate to an isolated incident but to a pattern of dangerous and recurring behavior specific to the Fontainebleau Rally, whose actions regularly disrupt public tranquility in the forest and surrounding areas. Numerous testimonies from local residents, walkers and associations report frantic races on forest paths and sometimes on the roads, lost and injured dogs and verbal or even physical attacks against peaceful opponents of this practice. This situation creates a clear disturbance to public order, particularly worrying in a forest very frequented by residents. from Île-de-France, families and tourists. The Nos Viventia association created a petition demanding the dissolution of the Rallye Fontainebleau, which has collected more than 62,000 signatures to date. These recurring facts call into question public security and raise the question of maintaining hunting associations whose members are guilty of repeated attacks. The most coherent path would be the pure and simple abolition of hound hunting, already effective in most European countries and desired by 72% of French people according to a 2025 IFOP survey. However, since the President of the Republic has chosen to reestablish presidential hunts, reviving a monarchical leisure activity that was believed to be reserved for the Ancien Régime, she asks him when she intends, at least and for all the reasons mentioned earlier, to dissolve the Fontainebleau Rally.

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