A hunter was indicted Friday, December 4 and released after killing a young man who was chopping wood in his garden and whom he had taken for a boar, we learned from the Cahors prosecutor's office.
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The accident occurred around 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday near the village of Calvignac village in the Lot.
A group of hunters had organized a wild boar hunt.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the hunter was almost 100 meters from the young man of 25 years.
“
The shooter said he saw a boar, then shot at a dark mass, he hit the victim in the chest, who was on his own plot.
The hunter spontaneously presented himself to the gendarmerie,
”Cahors prosecutor Frédéric Almendros said.
The author of the shooting, 33, was indicted for manslaughter and placed under judicial supervision with a ban on hunting, possession and carrying a weapon.
An investigation has been opened to establish what the brightness was at the time of firing, to verify the hunter's statements, and will be completed by a ballistic analysis.
Battue was authorized, said Didier Burg, the mayor of Calvignac, a village built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Lot.
The president of the departmental federation of hunters of the Lot, André Manié, regretted "
a dramatic accident
" and assured that his organization would "
continue and redouble its efforts to even better train and educate hunters to practice hunting in complete safety
".
The funeral for the young man, a Briton whose family had been living in the village for years, took place on Saturday.
The Association for the Protection of Wild Animals (APAS) reiterated to the Head of State its demand for "
major and in-depth reform of hunting
".
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