The Minister of the Ecological Transition returned, Wednesday, on Yannick Jadot’s proposal to prohibit hunting on weekends, after several accidents that occurred in recent days.
Le Monde with AFP
The proposal advanced by the candidate Ecologist Yannick Jadot to prohibit the hunt on weekends is an idea “on which one must have a debate,” said the Minister of the ecological transition, Barbara Pompili, Wednesday, November 3rd on FRANCINFO.
“It’s been one of the discussions that have long been on the issue of space sharing. My role as a minister in charge of hunting is to ensure that it respects a number of rules”, Continued the former member of Ecology-Les Greens, however, that “the majority does not have a willingness to prohibit hunting”.
The Minister of the Ecological Transition was questioned about Mr. Jadot’s proposal to prohibit hunting on weekends and school holidays. “Nature is needed to be accessible to everyone,” Did he then justify Friday on BFM-TV . “When I hear that three-quarters of people living in rurality do not dare to walk on Sundays when there is rifle shooting, it’s not normal,” he continued. Mr. Jadot has also reaffirmed to completely prohibit the hunt, like that of threatened species and “all the other cruel hunts”, and recalled that if he is elected President of the Republic in April 2022, a “Ministry of the property Being an animal “would be created.
Several accidents
This debate on hunting enters the election campaign while several accidents occurred in recent days, of which were victims of non-hunters. A walker in Haute-Savoie and a sexagenarian driving his car near Rennes have both been seriously injured. In this last case, a 69-year-old hunter was indicted on Monday for “involuntary wounds”. The latter had been placed in custody for a few hours after the accident that occurred Saturday between Lauille and Orgères (Ille-et-Vilaine) while the driver and a passenger circulated on the four-way between Rennes and Nantes. A 9.3 mm caliber ball reached the vehicle, seriously injuring the neck driver.
Following this incident, five mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine claimed in an open letter of measures to secure battles “to guarantee public security [] Concitoyens”. Ediles put in particular the use of rifles more and more often by “little trained” hunters and call for a medical check obligation as in all sports activities “even if hunting is not considered a Sport “.
Half-day without hunt?
In their mail written in particular to M me Pompili, they propose to “set half days without hunting on Saturday and Sunday afternoon”. Asked on this idea, the Minister of the Ecological Transition judged Wednesday morning that “everything can be done, we must also look at territory”. “If a supervision is needed at the national level, again there are debates today, I’m not afraid of political debate, that debate is committed to and how far we can go “, pursued Barbara Pompilili.
Faced with a regularly criticized practice, the President of the National Federation of Hunters, Willy Schraen, said Monday that “the zero risk does not exist [AIT]. “Obviously it’s hurting these dramatic accidents, I apologize,” he said in an interview in South Radio, evoking a “small series law”. He also described as “demiles” the proposals of Mr. Jadot to prohibit hunting during the weekend and the school holidays: “If you want to prohibit something, that they prohibit hunting while short, because people Who hunt are people who work. “
A weekly day without hunting, every Wednesday, had already been imposed at the national level in 2000. The measure was repealed in 2003, leaving the prefects the opportunity to establish at the departmental level – it is in fact the case. in many departments.