Emmanuel Macron’s pro-hunting policies may boost his rural vote but have angered animal protection groups
Through the early morning mist on the edge of a forest west of Paris, Denys de Magnitot stood observing the hunt. Bugles sounded, dogs sniffed the ground and hunters followed on foot. A roe deer darted across the field and a shot rang out.
“We’re feeling positive,” said De Magnitot, a farmer, lifelong hunter and mayor of a village in the Val d’Oise. Hunters in France had reason to be happy, he said, because the president, Emmanuel Macron, had given his unabashed support to hunting, promising to strongly promote and protect it as a French way of life.
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