The proposal is not likely to go unnoticed.
The president of the National Federation of Hunters, Willy Schraen, believes in an interview with the Journal du dimanche that hunters have “a role to play” in “community policing”.
In any case, this is what he intends to propose this week to the local elected officials that he will meet during the congress of mayors.
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“Today we are witnessing in rural communities a disappearance of the local police concerning the surveillance of agricultural and forest areas. Few municipalities can still afford rural guards. Rural and environmental crime is increasing. A link is clearly missing at the level of the territories, ”he argues.
“Within the federation, we have development agents. These are trained and sworn professionals already working in certain municipalities who have requested it for the regulation of certain harmful species, ”he explains. Within the framework of a partnership at the local level, these agents “could, tomorrow, under the control of the State and the mayors, have broader missions to deal with the illegal dumping of refuse, the straying of animals. domestic, problems related to the presence of motor vehicles in the forest in sensitive places, etc. It would be a question of drawing up reports and noting flagrant offenses. "
These declarations come after a black series of hunting accidents.
This Thursday, a 47-year-old man was seriously injured in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne).
He was shot in the face while participating in a woodcock hunting party.
This Friday, the town hall of Laillé, south of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), where a 67-year-old motorist lost his life after a shooting less than two weeks ago, issued a decree prohibiting hunting unless 150 m from homes and prohibiting the use of rifles throughout the town.