Recreational 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 recreational hunter.
In a forest in Chapella in the Upper Engadin, a horse was injured on 8.9.2021 by a shot fired by a recreational hunter.
Icelandic horse mistaken for a roe deer buck
The horse had to be euthanized. The Graubünden cantonal police are investigating.
The recreational hunter was at the location God at 9 o’clock in the morning engaged in recreational 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 recreational hunter is being reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Graubünden.
Recreational hunters brawl their way to the hospital
In mid-August, 18 recreational 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 recreational 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.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. 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.
