A 25-year-old hiker was shot dead on Saturday afternoon in Cantal, in a hunting accident, we learned from the gendarmes and the prosecution. The young woman died on the spot after receiving a stray bullet around 3 p.m. during a wild boar hunt which started in neighboring Aveyron and was taking place, at the time of the events, in the town of Cassaniouze (Cantal), a we said from the same source, confirming information from the local newspaper La Montagne.
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According to the prosecution, the author of the shot in question is a young woman of 17 years. She tested negative for narcotics and alcohol and was taken to hospital in shock. An investigation was opened on the count of manslaughter and entrusted to the Aurillac research brigade, according to the prosecution.
The reactions of politicians
After the death of the hiker on Saturday, several political figures, environmentalists in the lead, called on Sunday in France for a ban on hunting on weekends and during school holidays. Hunting regularly comes up in political debate in France, a European country with the most hunters ahead of Spain and Italy, with 1.2 million active, out of some four million with a permit. France is also the only European country allowing hunting every day during the season, while Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal have established one or more non-hunting days. “We need more regulation of this activity, it is urgent!” Insisted on Saturday the environmental candidate for president, Yannick Jadot.
“Prohibition of hunting on weekends and school holidays, at least”, added Sandrine Rousseau, finalist of the environmental primary. “How many more deaths before we decide to regulate hunting, a dangerous and inhuman practice? At the very least, let’s ban hunting on weekends and school holidays now!”, Added David Belliard, deputy mayor of Paris and socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo.
Side France insubordinate (left) also, it is estimated that it is necessary to prohibit the hunt the weekend. “The tragedies are multiplying. The forest must belong on the weekend to hikers, walkers. Five days of the week are enough to go hunting. We must no longer go to the forest with fear in our stomachs”, underlined the MEP Manon Aubry Sunday on RMC. The Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Bérangère Abba, deplored an “unbearable and unacceptable tragedy” and promised that “decisions will follow, so that never again”. A petition calling for a ban on hunting on Wednesdays and Sundays had collected more than 120,000 signatures last fall and prompted the Senate to create a commission on security.
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