Two years after the hunting accident that cost the life of Morgan Keane in the Lot, the hunter and the hunter will be tried in November in Cahors, the Cahors prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday September 27.
The two men are sent back to the Cahors Criminal Court on November 17 for
"manslaughter during a hunting action"
, said the public prosecutor Alexandre Rossi in a press release.
Morgan Keane was killed on December 2, 2020 in Calvignac (Lot) by a hunter who had taken him for a wild boar, while he was chopping wood in his garden.
The young man, born in Aveyron to an Aveyron mother and a British father, was then 25 years old.
The two defendants risk up to “
3 years in prison, a fine of 75,000 euros, a ban on possessing a weapon for 5 years or the permanent withdrawal of hunting licenses
”, specifies the prosecution.
“Lifetime license ban”
The death of Morgan Keane had caused a great stir in the region, leading to the creation of the collective Un jour un chasseur, which proposed in particular to ban hunting on Wednesdays and Sundays, and to establish "
protective distances around the habitation areas which are equal to the maximum range of the weapons
”.
Proposals mostly rejected by a Senate mission in mid-September.
“
We hope that the trial will be exemplary with an exemplary sentence
” including “
the prohibition of the license for life
”, told AFP the members of the collective One day a hunter, made up of friends of Morgan Keane.
The collective wishes that “
the victims be considered
” and would like that at the end of the trial, “
unhunted spaces be set up
” around the houses of the relatives of the victim.
"
So that they are not confronted with the sight and sound of the hunt
", explain its members.
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For the time being, Morgan Keane's brother has filed a civil action according to the prosecution, as well as the departmental federation of Lot hunters.
One day a hunter denounces the civil action of hunters: “
A hunt is something collective.
There should be collective responsibility.
It's quite shocking that they place themselves as victims.
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