A decision favorable to the rooster Maurice | The justice of …

In a fierce struggle between the ritual parsimony of rural customs and the plastic emergency of urban habits, the French justice finally decides to allow the rooster Maurice to continue singing, after having rejected the request of the neighbors who have accused the feather of waking them too soon. The sentence, of course, has been interpreted as a victory for rural traditions in France.

"Mauritius has won and the plaintiffs will have to pay their owner 1,000 euros in damages," said Julien Papineau, Maurice's lawyer for the transfer of his owner, Corinne Fesseau, on his way out of the Rochefort court. (South West).

"I do not have words, we won.It is a victory for all people in the same situation.I hope you believe in jurisprudence," said the owner of the rooster. , the internationalized bulwark as a symbol.

"Everyone will be protected: bells, frogs," he added, citing other similar lawsuits against the noises of the rural world, who often oppose usual inhabitants of the neo-rural.

"What if a law in Mauritius was put in place to protect rural noises?" Proposed Corinne Fesseau enthusiastically, without restraint.

Mauritius has become a symbol of rural resistance in France, where a demand to "save it" has received more than 140,000 signatures. His crunch called (it would be a quiquiriqueo) at dawn was bothering the owners of a residence usually used by tourists on the island of Oléron, in southwestern France, who accused him of "sound damage" in court.

This is not a case of "the city against the countryside." It is a problem of sound damage.The bad, the dog, the horn, the music … it's a matter of noise, "said lawyer Vincent Huberdeau, who represents the plaintiffs, at a hearing on July 4, although there is no record of complaints for urban decibels.

The owner of the rooster baderted in court that she had never received any complaints regarding the singing of Maurice. "The henhouses have always existed, and out of 40 neighbors, that only disturbs two," he said.

For Fesseau, "the field is entitled to its noises.The rooster has the right to sing, the roosters have not sung since 16:30 indefinitely," he said while leaving his watch.

The case of Mauritius, although anecdotal, illustrates the fears of a disappearing rural world in France, due to the decline in agricultural activity and livestock and livestock. exodus of young people to the city.

Bruno Dionis du Sejour, mayor of the small town of Gajac, in southwestern France, has published a raging letter to defend the "right" of church bells to ring, cows to die and braying donkeys.

The allusion to the bells is due to a dispute that took place in 2018 in a town in the Doubs (east), where owners of a tourist residence (still tourists) complained of ring at 7 o'clock in the morning. , too early to understand, and his dream.

Bruno Dionis du Séjour even advocates that the sounds of the countryside be clbadified as "French national heritage". It is not clear if he can advance the idea. The truth is that with Maurice, the lyrics of the song saying "If I sang the red bad, another bad would sing" were open.