A rooster called Maurice has been put on trial in western France, in an unusual case that has come to symbolize the divide between urban and rural communities
The copper-feathered cockerel is the defendant in a court battle stemming from a long-running neighborhood dispute over his early morning crowing.His owner Corinne Fesseau told CNN that neighbors in the village of Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, on the Isle of Oléron, first complained in April 2017, asking her to keep Maurice quiet."I've lived here for 35 years, it's never bothered anyone," she said.
"A rooster is not an abnormal, unbearable or excessive trouble," he said."This rooster was not there to be trendy. It lives there amongst hens like it has always has. Because its owners want eggs."Christophe Sueur, mayor of Saint-Pierre-D'Oléron told CNN that the case is an example of deeper issues in contemporary society.
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