The Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, estimated Tuesday that it was necessary to think about days without hunting, after the fatal accident involving a teenager.
We must “think” about a possible ban on hunting for minors and “days without hunting territory by territory”, said Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili on Tuesday, after the fatal accident involving a teenager.
A hiker was killed by a stray bullet on Saturday during a wild boar hunt in Cantal and a 17-year-old girl, holder of the hunting license and alleged perpetrator of the shooting, was to be brought to court in Aurillac on Tuesday. from his custody. Asked by France Bleu Occitanie about a possible ban on minors from hunting, Ms. Pompili felt that it was necessary “clearly to ask questions”. “We have to think about this question, I especially don’t want to make a decision that goes too quickly following a tragedy like this. On the other hand, we have to think about the weight that we put on minors”, continued the minister, stressing that the young hunter was going to have to “live her whole life” with this “drama”.
Ms. Pompili also considered it “legitimate” to “think” about the proposal to introduce days without hunting, brought in particular in the presidential campaign by the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot. “It already exists at the local level (…). It’s a totally legitimate question and I think it’s time for everyone to get around the table to think about days without hunting, but which must be done territory by territory. We do not have the same constraints and the same situations from one territory to another so we must bring together the federations of hunters with all the associations which represent the other users of nature to look at this what needs to be done in terms of days without hunting, that would be the best solution,” she said.
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