Female hunt saboteur punched in face by male hunt supporter

Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 11.11.2017

On Thursday 9th November members of West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs were monitoring the Warwickshire Hunt who were hunting in Birdingbury, Warwickshire. Whilst they were filming the hounds two male hunt supporters approached the saboteurs and became increasingly aggressive. One of them hit one of the cameras before punching a female saboteur in the face. When her back is turned on him he starts shoving her and then pushes her to the ground. When she challenges him about him hitting her he can be heard saying “you can hit me if you want, I don’t give a f***”

Back on the road one hunt supporter apologies and says “that should never have happened” and then agrees that despite their differences the saboteurs have never been violent towards them.

The Saboteurs then challenge the Warwickshire Hunt senior master Charmaine Green and ask her if she thinks it acceptable to hit women, a female passenger in the back says “you’re not a woman, you’re a monster” and “that’s nothing” referring to the blood coming from the saboteurs eye.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs said “We were concerned that the hunt were hunting a fox and that the hounds were heading towards a busy main road. Suddenly two hunt supporters approach us and start shouting aggressively before attacking us. It shows what type of people fox hunters are that they think it acceptable for men to attack women, punch them and then shove them over from behind. He latter even admits on camera to what he had done.”

Lee Moon, spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association, stated: ”Fox hunting, by its very nature, is a violent activity and it is only a short leap from using violence towards animals to using violence against people. Just like they try to justify their violence towards foxes by vilifying them as pests they try to justify their violence towards sabs by calling them monsters. This was a completely unprovoked attack by a very violent hunt. Fox hunting is a breeding ground for normalising violence with some very questionable attitudes towards women. We ask the question who are the real monsters here?”

After being punched in the face the female saboteur received injuries to her eye and had to attend A&E at Warwick Hospital.