wait some times louis and he will reach southern france too. the speed this animal had expand his biosphere in the last 20 years is astonishing. here is a map of germany showing raccons hunted between 2000 and 2003:

you see two red center, one in the middle and one in the north-east. the point in the middle of the country goes back to four animals released in 1934 by a forester for having another kind of fur bearing animal. the animal population in the north - east startet with a bomb attack in WW 2 hiting a fur farm.
for decades this were local events and the animals hardly were seen outside of this area's but after 2000 this realy explode and I believe they have overrun the borders now in every direction. some times they meet a fellow guy the first time who expand his territory in a similar way from the east: the asian raccon dog. this guy was set out in ukraine in the 1930s and reach now luxemburg and switzerland in the west.
both animals are declared as invasive species and thanks to the greens fur is completly worthless now.

this shows the number of animals hunted per year since 2000
black = racoon blue = asian racoon dog

you can see the strange "explosion"
there are hunters who take 70 and more a year but this depends on the area
(the german hunting year goes from april 1 to march 31 of the next year)