Moselle: Wild boars attempt to enter the Saint-Avold water sports stadium: the video goes viral

The scene is laughable. Three wild boars were filmed by a motorist on Monday, October 27, in front of the entrance to the intercommunal swimming pool, located a stone's throw from the town center of Saint-Avold. It was around 10 a.m. when Sabine, the manager of the Ferme de la petite vallée, came across the game. "Due to the roadworks on Rue du Maréchal-Foch, we had to take the bypass towards the Agora area. That's where I saw them. I parked so I could film." The moment was all the more comical because a delivery man arrived at the door of the swimming pool complex at the same time... Before taking to his heels when he saw the three enormous beasts. "I saw him run and jump into his car. He was really scared!"

While the video shows two of the three wild boars running alongside the building before heading off to the nearby football field, the third persists and desperately tries to force its way in. It first crashes into the door of the Cercle Nautique, cracking the lower part of the glass, then into the pool door. At that time of day, during the school holidays, the place was open to the public. "Luckily, the door doesn't push inward, but pulls. If it did, I don't know how we would have reacted." At the pool reception, the employees didn't hear anything at the time. It was the same delivery man who came to warn them once the animals had left.

The most stubborn of the wild boars is said to have fled into the garden of a pavilion opposite the swimming pool.

A scene that was shared on social media and sparked numerous reactions from internet users. Although the video doesn't show it, the animal was apparently injured. Proof of this is the blood found on the windows of the aquatic center.

The animals most likely came from the Oderfang forest, where a hunt was taking place on Monday.

"We were lucky. We've been seeing another video circulating on the internet in which an 80kg wild boar is chased by dogs and smashes through the window of a bakery in the Loire Valley. The customers had a lucky escape."