Recreational hunter shoots woman during wild boar hunt
A recreational hunter shot and killed a woman during a wild boar hunt. The fatal hunting accident highlights the dangers of unregulated recreational hunting.
During a wild boar hunt in Brittany, a 67-year-old hobby huntress from England was shot and killed.
A shot from her companion's rifle struck the British woman above the heart, judicial sources reported on Sunday. She was taken to a hospital in Saint-Brieuc, where she later succumbed to her injuries.
The responsible prosecutor Nicolas Heitz announced that the senile 69-year-old recreational hunter was initially taken into custody. Due to his state of health, however, he had to be transferred to hospital. The exact circumstances of the fatal hunting accident still needed to be clarified, said Heitz.
According to initial findings, the recreational hunter had been carrying his rifle over his shoulder with the barrel pointing backwards. Tests showed that the recreational hunter was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Approximately a dozen hunters had participated in the wild boar hunt. They were on a harvested maize field near Goudelin when the fatal shot was discharged.
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.
