Brigitte Bardot added her voice to storm of protest sparked after authorities threatened to separate Rillette from owner ...

Animal rights campaigners in France are fighting to save a wild boar adopted as a piglet by a horse breeder but now ...

A French court has ruled that a wild boar named "Rillette" can remain with her owner, after a long legal battle and public ...

Found as a tiny piglet near garbage bins outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, ...

Keeping the boar, though, meant Ms Cappé risked a three-year jail sentence and a €150,000 (£127,000) fine. Her appeal to a ...

Found as a tiny piglet near garbage bins outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, ...

Found as a tiny piglet near garbage bins outside the horse farm of Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023, “Rillette” has now grown into a large sow with a bristly brown coat ...

Sitting on a hay bale, French horse breeder Elodie Cappe delicately patted and lovingly rested her head on Rillette, a wild boar she took in as a piglet, worrying she could be separated from her pet ...

A French court is set to rule in coming days on the fate of Rillette, who was found as a tiny piglet outside the horse farm of Ms Elodie Cappe in Chaource, central France, in April 2023.