WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: French supermarket managers sacked over safari hunting snaps
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Published: 11 Jul, 2019 CET.
Updated: Thu 11 Jul 2019 08:45 CET
It was meant to be a trophy picture, showing their success on safari, but the photo of a French couple posing beside a lion they had shot ended up costing them their jobs.
Managers of a supermarket in L'Arbresle, a small town in eastern France, the pair had in 2015 taken part in a so-called captive hunt that involves shooting at animals kept inside an enclosed area.
Such a set-up virtually guarantees a kill for private trophy hunters.
But when pictures spread on social media of them posing with guns next to the corpse of a lion, a hippopotamus, a zebra, an alligator and a leopard, it sparked a backlash.
Au bon plaisir de tuer des animaux, la famille Alboud, propriétaire du #SuperU d'#Arbresle
Ces personnes sont immondes de cruauté, leur photos comme trophées pic.twitter.com/xa9EZqlYsF
— virginie (@2711virginie) July 9, 2019
Faced with a growing chorus of online abuse as well as calls to boycott the SuperU grocery store that they ran, the couple finally decided to step down on Tuesday evening, the U cooperative said.
"These images go against the values and commitments upheld by the U retail cooperative. We firmly condemn them, even though they relate to private activities by the supermarket owners," it said in a statement.
Quand la connerie humaine n'a pas de limite ... ???#SuperU #Arbresle #Alboud pic.twitter.com/4wLQdvTnAH
— Miss de Bretagne ? (@ysa_bella00) July 9, 2019
"In light of the condemnation raised by these activities within the cooperative and the legitimate emotion among the public, the shop's managers have decided to immediately leave the chain and their shop in L'Arbresle."
Copies of the incriminating photographs were released by "30 Millions d'Amis", a French animal welfare charity whose name means "30 million friends" but it was not immediately clear how they first emerged.
The company pledged to bring in new managers and said the SuperU shop would reopen on Thursday.
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Managers of a supermarket in L'Arbresle, a small town in eastern France, the pair had in 2015 taken part in a so-called captive hunt that involves shooting at animals kept inside an enclosed area.
Such a set-up virtually guarantees a kill for private trophy hunters.
But when pictures spread on social media of them posing with guns next to the corpse of a lion, a hippopotamus, a zebra, an alligator and a leopard, it sparked a backlash.
Au bon plaisir de tuer des animaux, la famille Alboud, propriétaire du #SuperU d'#Arbresle
— virginie (@2711virginie) July 9, 2019
Ces personnes sont immondes de cruauté, leur photos comme trophées pic.twitter.com/xa9EZqlYsF
Faced with a growing chorus of online abuse as well as calls to boycott the SuperU grocery store that they ran, the couple finally decided to step down on Tuesday evening, the U cooperative said.
"These images go against the values and commitments upheld by the U retail cooperative. We firmly condemn them, even though they relate to private activities by the supermarket owners," it said in a statement.
Quand la connerie humaine n'a pas de limite ... ???#SuperU #Arbresle #Alboud pic.twitter.com/4wLQdvTnAH
— Miss de Bretagne ? (@ysa_bella00) July 9, 2019
"In light of the condemnation raised by these activities within the cooperative and the legitimate emotion among the public, the shop's managers have decided to immediately leave the chain and their shop in L'Arbresle."
Copies of the incriminating photographs were released by "30 Millions d'Amis", a French animal welfare charity whose name means "30 million friends" but it was not immediately clear how they first emerged.
The company pledged to bring in new managers and said the SuperU shop would reopen on Thursday.
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