The 17-year-old girl, who during a hunt on Saturday had fatally shot a hiker in Cantal, was indicted on Tuesday for “manslaughter“, at a time when the debate is heating up around the supervision of this practice between presidential candidates.
The young girl, who allegedly carried out the fatal shot during a wild boar beat, was placed under judicial supervision with “prohibited from possessing or carrying a weapon“, specified in a press release the prosecutor of Aurillac Paolo Giambasi. The tragedy occurred on Saturday afternoon, in the town of Cassaniouze, in the south of the department, when a 25-year-old woman was hit by a shot in the upper body, on the left level. The hunter had immediately recognized the facts and presented herself as the author of the shot. In a state of shock, she was initially hospitalized. Release revealed that the latter was “from Mourjou about ten kilometers from the place of the accident” and that”she was in possession of a valid hunting license“. She explained to the inspectors that she thought she was aiming for a boar before hearing the voice of a man.
“The hearings of the witnesses of the facts and of the hunters who participated in the search showed that several shots had been fired during this hunt.“, had noted Monday the parquet floor in another press release. An autopsy of the body of the victim was to take place Tuesday morning. Jean Pierre Boulanger, president of the association of hunters spent the day of Sunday with the gendarmes then that of Monday to make declarations of assurances. His wife explained to Release : “They were 18 people in a circle and had signaled the beating, [mon mari] was two kilometers from the accident.“
“We need more regulation of this activity, it is urgent!“, claimed this weekend the environmental candidate for the presidential election, Yannick Jadot, while the leader of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon demanded a ban on hunting on weekends and during school holidays, and called for not “sell weapons that are as powerful“. For her part, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen had estimated that the hunt, “ancestral tradition“, “must be maintained“.