Hobby hunter shoots horse in the Upper Engadin

In a forest in Chapella in the Upper Engadin, a horse was injured on 8.9.2021 by a shot fired by a hobby hunter.

Icelandic horse mistaken for a roe deer buck

The horse had to be euthanized. The Graubünden cantonal police are investigating.

The hobby hunter was at the location God at 9 o’clock in the morning engaged in hobby hunting. According to his account, a roe deer buck crossed the forest path in front of him and disappeared. The wildlife killer fired a shot at an animal that was in the forest below the path. He then realized that he had injured an Icelandic horse.

The horse was so severely injured that it had to be euthanized on the spot by the veterinarian. The confessing hobby hunter is being reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Graubünden.

Hobby hunters brawl their way to the hospital

In mid-August, 18 hobby hunters gathered at the «Jägerstübli» Chesa Laudenbacher in La Punt Chamues-ch, also in Graubünden. At the hunters’ evening, a teacher violently attacked a retiree. The latter suffered a fractured skull and had to be taken to the hospital in Samedan.

«First he went out onto the balcony to smoke a cigarette», says the retiree about the teacher. Shortly afterwards, the teacher came back from the balcony as if transformed and said «Tonight you will die» to him.

Then things escalated rapidly: with full force, the teacher knocked over the retiree’s chair, causing him to hit the back of his head against the stone floor. The hobby hunter was brought to the intensive care unit at the hospital in Samedan in the early morning of August 20 with numerous abrasions and a skull fracture, as Südostschweiz reports.