« Drones have killed more sheep than wolf! ‘,” tells Shepherd Felix Portillo to Parisian Which tells a tragic story that happened this summer. The 31-year-old shepherd was herding 1,500 sheep in Villard Recoolas, in Isere, when a tourist-led drone flew over his flock several times. “ It was pushing him into the abyss! I see sheep terrified, running in all directions, I point, cry, but the machine comes back and back again! He says to the shepherd France Blue Isere. Frightened, about fifteen sheep fall over the precipice. Sponsor locates a pilot in his twenties who was wearing virtual reality goggles. ” He might have thought he was in a video game, but he was playing with living beings! »
The tone rises and the shepherd, feeling the attack, breaks the flying machine. The pilot files a complaint and the sponsor risks a €400 fine for damaging the equipment. Felix Portillo will appear before the attorney general in early November. Busy with his flock, he waited for him to return from the pasture to file a complaint. A situation that angers some Internet users.
The shepherd, in disgust, calls on the authorities to ban flights over areas where herds graze. The shepherd is installed in a tourist area and has already tried to make tourists, hikers and mountain bikers aware of the reality of grazing from the posters. ” I’m not going back to babysitting next summer in this mountain pasture, bitterly confesses to France Bleu Isere. It’s such a shame, the herd owned breeder that I work for has been coming here for 40 years! »
