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#Slipgate

Members of the Bird Protection League went to free chaffinches from traps set by farmers but were attacked.

The finch is protected by the French love it. As FOOD.

“Slipgate”, as the incident has become known from the French word for pants, swiftly went viral on the internet, spawning a flurry of spoof tweets, with the unnamed assailant depicted shovel in hand at the Berlin Wall or wielding a light sabre.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11984734/Slipgate-underpants-attack-has-France-in-stitches.html

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‘Slipgate’ underpants attack has France in stitches

Spade-wielding assailant in Y-fronts does battle with bird lovers, as “pantsgate” transfixes France

President of the Bird Protection League (LPO) Allain Bougrain-Dubourg (L) is evacuated by an inhabitant after clashing with the owner (R) of a plot where bird traps were found during an action against finch poaching Photo: AFP/Getty

By Henry Samuel, Paris

7:33PM GMT 09 Nov 2015

Militants for the French league for the protection of birds received more than ruffled feathers on Monday when they came under attack from a spade-wielding local in underpants.

The violent Y-front assault occurred after the bird lovers launched a sting operation to free protected chaffinches from illegal traps.

A militant of the Bird Protection league is hit by a spade Photo: AFP/Getty

“It all started so well,” according to Le Figaro newspaper, which recounted how members of France’s league for the protection of birds (LPO), accompanied by a group of journalists, launched a bid to free chaffinches illegally trapped in a corn field in the Landes, western France.

The bird is a protected species since 1976 but many French hunters flout rules to catch and eat what they consider a delicacy.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11984734/Slipgate-underpants-attack-has-France-in-stitches.html

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