Tougher sentences to be imposed for those causing accidents but alcohol ban dismissed as ‘laughable’
The hunter who fired the fatal shot, Julien Féral, was on trial along with the hunt organiser Laurent Lapergue, 51, in November on charges of manslaughter. A verdict is expected on Thursday.
Over the past 20 years, 88% of the victims of hunting accidents have been hunters themselves. As the government prepared on Monday to announce measures to make hunting safer, it was reported an 84-year-old hunter fatally shot himself in Corsica while putting his gun away in his car. Two other accidents were reported at the weekend involving two hunters, one 19 years old and the other 67.injured has increased from 12% to 26% of the total over the last two decades, according to OFB figures.
In October 2021, Joël Viard, 67, was killed when a hunter’s stray bullet hit him in the neck as he drove along a motorway from Rennes to Nantes. The hunter is under investigation for manslaughter. Before Monday’s announcement, the French bird protection league told the government it would face an outcry if it failed to take into account anger at fatalities linked to hunting. It said the alcohol ban was “laughable”.
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