Bees Nest Legal Situation

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You may find this reference from SF of some help:

Neighbours cut down my hedge

There’s a wire fence between my house and the next door garden. Several years ago I planted some laurel bushes along the fence to obscure the view of their unattractive disused concrete rabbit hutches. The laurels were doing a good job = the tallest was probably about a metre and a half high. The neighbours house is now unoccupied - it was bought by a young farmer who wanted the fields belonging to it. His parents use the back garden to grow potatoes. A couple of days ago, his mother was in the garden with a hedge trimmer, and she started cutting the tops of the laurels. We didn’t object, though she hadn’t asked in advance - gave her a friendly wave and a bonjour. Imagine our horror when next morning we saw that she had completely obliterated the laurels - they had been cut right down to the roots, which she couldn’t have done without coming over the fence to our side of the garden. We cannot understand why or how she did this, and wonder what recourse we have. We are not on great ter…

You are quite right to be concerned about the safety of bees. A local beekeeper might be willing to help remove them safely and your local mairie can probably advise you in that regard.
Are you certain they are bees and not frelon asiatique which will be of much concern to the mairie where there are special arrangements often in place to remove them.