Overview
- An administrative court in Besançon rejected emergency appeals on December 2, clearing the prefecture to carry out the on-site slaughter of 82–83 cattle in Pouilley-Français.
- The prefecture reported about 300 demonstrators facing a deployment of 175 gendarmes, with tear gas used and one defensive LBD shot fired, and two people arrested.
- Prosecutors said the detainees face charges including violence with a weapon and refusal to comply by a vehicle driver.
- Officials said a cow tested positive despite vaccination, concluding the shots were administered too late, while the farm and unions argued the herd had been vaccinated for roughly five weeks and should have been monitored instead.
- The case has fueled solidarity actions across France, with rallies in Creuse, Dordogne, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, and Aveyron, as unions denounce depopulation policy during an outbreak that has reached 107 detected sites and led to over 2,700 euthanized animals with state compensation.