The surreal video of a hunter shooting across the street: “From here I pass over the car”

Last Saturday, while pedaling on a departmental road in the Drôme, environmental activist Pierre Rigaux, who is fighting for the abolition of hunting, came across a hunter stationed along an embankment.

Caught off guard, she stopped him to find out what he was doing there and filmed the scene before posting it on Facebook. An encounter that led to a rather surreal exchange as the hunter admitted that he was shooting across the street at the animals that were coming on the other side.

“Don’t worry. If there is a car or a bike I have practically 360 degree visibility. We are not in danger. The ball will cross the road but fear not, we are not killers and we know what we are doing anyway,” he laughs.

When Pierre Rigaux explains to him that it is not allowed to shoot in the street, the hunter admits it, but plays with words. “Shoot on the street, no, but I’m not going to shoot in the street, I’m going to shoot across the street, he explains before trying to justify himself.” Over there, if he shoots, he’s at eye level. While here, if I shoot, I go over the car, on whatever you want. “

The anti-hunting activist continues to interrogate the hunter and evokes the possible arrival of a cyclist, who would ride fast and quietly. Here, too, the hunter’s response is not long in coming. “However, as long as the dogs don’t cry, that’s no problem”, concludes the hunter, who is not wearing the orange vest, which is mandatory during a “big game hunt”.

A behavior that scandalizes Rémi Gandy, president of the Drôme hunting federation. He promised to severely punish the hunter. “People who make such a speech, we don’t want them in our ranks,” he confided to our colleagues at BFMTV.

For its part, the gendarmerie also announced that it had opened an investigation.