‘I demand she is spared’: Brigitte Bardot joins campaign to save wild boar

The French movie star has written an open letter to rescue Rillette, the boar faced with being put down by the French authorities

It is hard to raise much sympathy for a wild boar in France: hunters like to shoot and eat them; farmers claim they cause around €1m of damage to crops every year; health officials claim they spread diseases. The unfortunately named Rillette – it means a type of potted meat – however, is the exception to the general rule.

A threat by the local authorities in the Aube, eastern France, to put down the female boar has spread into an international campaign to save Rillette supported by animal activist and former actor Brigitte Bardot.

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