Overview

• A court-ordered eviction saw up to 250 caravans moved off Pierre Richard’s Vosges farm by early August
• Richard says he resorted to spraying liquid manure after authorities declined to intervene in the travellers’ unauthorised settlement
• He now fears reprisals from the travelling community following widely circulated footage of the slurry spraying
• The slurry treatment rendered the pasture unusable and disrupted hay production on the multi-generational dairy farm
• Rights groups and some local officials condemned the eviction method as evidence of systemic discrimination and highlighted shortages in designated traveller sites