Paris - Rival demonstrations this weekend greeted the opening of a large hunting shop selling rifles in a tough Parisian suburb menaced by gang violence.
Local groups protested outside a new branch of Edouard Kettner's, France's largest hunting accessory retailers, only two months after a 14-year-old boy was killed with a shotgun nearby as the result of a feud between rival gangs.
But nearly 50 hunters, organised by the pro-hunting CPNT party, which stands for Chasse, Peche, Nature et Tradition (Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Tradition) gathered to give their support to the shop's arrival at the Tarterets housing estate in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris.