France hunted a recreational hunter after femicide
French security forces eventually found the wanted recreational hunter Marc Floris (33) dead on Tuesday.
A man was suspected of having killed a woman.
Shot to the head in the doorway
On Sunday morning, 18 July 2021, the body of a young woman was found in the doorway of her home in Plan-de-La-Tour (France). She had been killed by a shot to the head.
In connection with the crime, French police launched an intensive search for a man named Marc Floris. The recreational hunter is said to have stalked the victim before her death. When police showed up at his home during the investigation, the 33-year-old fled. In doing so, he shot at an officer.
Body found after 48-hour manhunt
The recreational hunter knew the area he had fled to very well. The suspect's body was found after a 48-hour manhunt in Gréolières, a mountain village in the Alpes-Maritimes. Suicide is presumed. The man was considered «armed and dangerous».
It is statistically proven that people who Animals torture and kill do not shy away from torturing and murdering people either. Studies have by now convinced sociologists, legislators and courts that acts of violence against animals demand our attention. And indeed, there are also numerous cases of femicide by recreational hunters in German-speaking countriesFemicide by the Recreational hunting community.
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. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
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.
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