The Senate announced Tuesday, November 9 the creation of a mission on the issue of hunting security, after noting "
strong support
" for a petition on its site calling for measures against "
death, violence and abuse linked to hunting
”.
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The High Assembly is committed to examining the petitions filed on its site which collect more than 100,000 signatures in six months.
This collected 86,000.
The petition launched on September 10 by the collective “
Un jour un hunter
”, created following the death on December 2 of a young man of 25, Morgan Keane, “
shot dead by a hunter while he was cutting wood in his garden
”, had exceeded Tuesday afternoon the 85,700 signatures.
The question of hunting safety
In anticipation, the Senate decided to create a “
joint mission
” between the Economic Affairs and Law committees. "
We want the Senate to examine in depth, far from the pre-election emotion and agitation, the issue of hunting safety, the regulations relating to the possession of hunting weapons and the penalties that may result. possible infringements
”, declared the president of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Sophie Primas (LR).
"
We fully share the pain of the families of the victims and everything must be done to avoid such tragedies,
" said Sophie Primas.
For the senator, "
there is no point in throwing anathema on the hunters, we must study and put in place effective and proven solutions
".
The mission, "
plural in its political composition
", will have vocation, "
from its establishment
" to hear all the stakeholders: the promoters of the petition, representatives of hunters and the relevant personalities and administrations "in
order to lead to concrete proposals possibly of legislative scope
”.
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In addition, a comparative study of the different systems in several countries will be carried out. Finally, "
a first assessment of the 2019 reform on hunting safety (safety training, retention and suspension of the hunting license in the event of a serious accident, etc.) should be drawn up
".
For François-Noël Buffet, LR chairman of the Law Commission, "
we have to get out of the debate for or against hunting and get to the bottom of things
."
“
Hunting is a legal and popular activity in our country.
It must be safe for non-hunters as well as for hunters.
The use of firearms obviously implies enhanced security
, ”she added.
Very recently, a motorist died after the shooting of a hunter, while driving between Rennes and Nantes.
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