France Approves 32 Temporary Slaughterhouses for Eid al-Adha 2022

In total, 32 temporary slaughterhouses are approved by the Ministry of Agriculture for the Eid al-Adha 2022 period, from Saturday, July 9 to Monday, July 22. The list was published in the official journal on July 2. This is a provisional list that will be supplemented before the Feast of Sacrifice.

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region has the most temporary slaughterhouses. There are 11, including six in the Bouches-du-Rhône and four in the Var. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté have eight and five temporary facilities respectively. In the Île-de-France region, where many Muslims reside, no mobile structure has been registered this year. Due to the rise in transportation costs and the purchase of the sheep that is constraining the Bergerie d’Aumont to reduce its expenses, the structure that was usually installed in Dugny, in Seine-Saint-Denis, will be absent, reports Actu.fr.

"In areas where slaughter capacity is insufficient, or even non-existent, the search for establishments capable of meeting the demands will have to be systematically extended to better-equipped regions," reads a circular dated April 19 relating to the celebration of the festival. "Indeed, it will be necessary to optimize the flows in order to ’saturate’ the slaughter capacities of the permanent slaughterhouses before making temporary slaughterhouses available."

In 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture authorized 23 temporary slaughterhouses for the Eid al-Adha period celebrated during the Covid-19 period.