The President of the French Federation of Butchers, Jean-François Guihard, has written to the French interior ministry asking for government protection from animal rights activists.
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The request comes after a number of butchers’ shops were vandalised across the country, often with the slogan “no to speciesism” sprayed across windows. Similar attacks have taken place in neighbouring Switzerland.