A 67-year-old motorist shot in the neck after the shooting of a hunter, while traveling between Rennes and Nantes on Saturday, died of his injuries, the Rennes prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday. According to an activist from Forest Shepherd Bretagne, contacted by RTL, several fundamental hunting rules have not been respected.
The 67-year-old motorist shot in the neck after the shooting of a hunter, while traveling between Rennes and Nantes on Saturday, died of his injuries, the Rennes prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday. “At least two serious mistakes were made and caused the death of this man,” said an activist from Forest Shepherd Bretagne, an activist collective for the Defense of forests and their inhabitants, at the microphone of RTL.
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Two mistakes?
The activist adds that “hunters are prohibited from shooting in the direction of risk areas and roads are part of it. Another fundamental rule that has not been respected: the shot must be tilted towards the ground”.
“In the field, we regularly have people contacting us for hunters who come near homes or who have shot in the direction of homes,” said the activist from Forest Shepherd Brittany who explains on RTL that pets are also injured by gunfire.
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The respondent was placed under judicial control with “prohibition to carry a weapon (…), to participate in any hunting action (…), to communicate with any member of the Ille hunting federation – et-Vilaine “as well as” with any participant in the hunting action in question “said the prosecution in a press release.
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