Marauding cows are driving tourists from beaches and forcing villagers indoors in Corsica, to the dismay of local mayors who say they have no power to stop them.
Several people have been gored after getting in the way of wandering cows, which have multiplied over recent years to 15,000 on the mountainous French Mediterranean island. About half belong to farmers who have the right to let them graze on the hillsides, and half are considered wild.
A French tourist in his fifties was rushed to hospital in Bastia this month after he annoyed a herd by trying to occupy a spot they like on a beach at Lotu, on the north Corsica coast. Their horns injured his neck. The attack was the second in the