Maurice the noisy rooster can keep crowing, court rules
by Kim Willsher in Paris from Environment | The Guardian on (#4PN6M)
French judge ruffles feathers by rejecting complaint about bird's dawn squawking
At last Maurice the rooster has something to crow about. A court has ruled that France's most famous cock can carry on with his dawn chorus, in a legal case that has pitted town against country.
On Thursday, a tribunal rejected a couple's complaint about the bird's early morning crowing and ordered them to pay a1,000 (897) in damages to Maurice's owner, Corinne Fesseau.
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