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Despite their growing media coverage, hunting accidents have been falling for 20 years

2023-01-12T08:44:44.037Z


INFOGRAPHICS - If the year 2022 has been marked by an increase in non-hunter victims, this does not necessarily reflect the trend of the past ten years.


To each drama its media tornado.

For several years now, each hunting accident has provoked its share of debates on the regulation of this practice.

This Thursday, January 12, the hunter who killed Morgan Keane, a young Franco-British, in the Lot in 2020, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence, in an atmosphere of growing mistrust of hunting. .

The victim had been accidentally shot while cutting wood on land belonging to him.

The author of the shooting had claimed to have confused it with a boar.

Meanwhile, the government on Monday announced several long-awaited measures to boost safety, including the creation of a fine for excessive alcohol use.

On the other hand, it did not see fit to establish a day without hunting, a measure acclaimed by a majority of French people.

In recent years, many associations have demanded better regulation of hunting, when it is not its outright ban and…

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Source: lefigaro

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