Curious stories from the dark world of hunting
During a nocturnal hunt in Lower Franconia, a recreational hunter was fatally injured by a gunshot last week. The 47-year-old woman was out on Tuesday evening, 2 May 2018, together with her partner and fellow recreational hunter in a forest in the Miltenberg district. At around 10:20 p.m., according to the current state of investigations, a shot was fired, causing the
During a nocturnal hobby hunt in Lower Franconia, a recreational hunter was fatally injured by a gunshot last week.
The 47-year-old woman was out on Tuesday evening, 2 May 2018, together with her partner and fellow recreational hunter in a forest in the Miltenberg district.
Fatal shot at 10:20 p.m.
At around 10:20 p.m., according to the current state of investigations, a shot was fired that caused the 47-year-old to suffer fatal injuries. Despite the immediate attendance of an emergency doctor and rescue services, the woman died at the scene.
«We do assume that he fired the shot,» said a police spokesperson. The woman died at the scene of the accident.
The exact sequence of events has not yet been conclusively established and remains the subject of police investigations. Already that same night, the Aschaffenburg Criminal Investigation Department took over further investigations in the presence of a public prosecutor.
The shooter also dies
Following the fatal shooting of his partner, the 50-year-old suspected shooter has now also died.
The recreational hunter was out recreational hunting again on Saturday, 5 May 2018, with acquaintances in a forest near Miltenberg, as police and the public prosecutor's office announced on Sunday. There he suddenly collapsed and died. The cause of death was initially unclear.
Investigators stated there was no indication of third-party involvement or suicide. The public prosecutor's office requested an autopsy. More on crime and recreational hunting.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
