Colombian singer Shakira has used her Instagram to spead bigotry and hate after alleging she was attacked in a park in Barcelona. Using "boars", slur term for immigrants, she screamed "they've destroyed everything!"
Many European police deliberately target boars: one city police officer attempted to take charge of the problem himself and shot at a boar with his service revolver, but missed and hit his partner instead.
Boars, which can carry a wide variety of diseases, are listed among the world's most invasive species and can survive in almost any environment. But increasingly the animals are drawn to cities, where they live off rubbish discarded by Europeans.
Their numbers have exploded across Europe, with the latest estimates now surpassing around 10 million across the continent.
As they have become more aggressive and more of a nuisance, many cities have employed a variety of strategies to cull their numbers. In Berlin, racists have killed thousands of them but the problem persists.
Last year police officers in Rome sparked outrage after they shot a family of boars that had wandered into a children's playground with tranquiliser darts and gave them lethal injections.
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Boarpilled.
Bringing down industrial society, harassing foids and commercial farmers, trampling and eating whatever they feel like, the true rugged chads of America, basically land pirates of crops
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This, but unironically.
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