Adopted wild boar Rillette can stay with her owner, French court rules

Authorities had threatened to remove and even euthanise the animal farmer Elodie Cappe had taken in as a piglet

A wild boar adopted by a French horse breeder can remain with her owner, a court has ruled, after authorities' threats to remove and even euthanise her triggered a storm of protest.

Found as a tiny piglet near rubbish bins outside a horse farm in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, Rillette has grown into a large sow who runs around with the horses and dogs on the farm.