The accident had occurred on October 30, between Laillé and Orgères (Ille-et-Vilaine), while the victim circulated on the four-lane road between Nantes and Rennes.
Le Monde with AFP
The 67-year-old motorist wounded by the neck after shooting a hunter, while he was circulating Saturday between Nantes and Rennes, died of his wounds, announced Thursday, November 4 the Parquet of Rennes .
The accident occurred Saturday, October 30, between Laillé and Orgères (Ille-et-Vilaine), while the driver and a passenger circulated on the four-lane road between Nantes and Rennes. A 9.3 mm caliber ball reached the vehicle, seriously injuring the neck driver. According to the daily life West-France, which revealed the story , The passenger, shocked but unscathed, has managed to master the vehicle and park on the bottom-side before preventing relief.
The indicting of the hunter, sexagenarian too, for “involuntary injuries”, which took place on Monday, has therefore been requalified since by the chief of “manslaughter during a hunting action by obviously deliberate violation of a security or caution obligation, “said Rennes’s prosecutor.
Prohibition to wear a weapon
The questioned was placed under judicial control with “prohibition of wearing a weapon (…), to participate in any action of hunting (…), of communication with any member of the Fighter Fighter of Ille-and -Vilaine “as well as” with any participant in the hunting action in question “.
Another hunting accident took place last week in Haute-Savoie, during which a walker was seriously injured, to the point of providing strong reactions in the political sphere.
At the end of October, the ecologist candidate in the Presidential Yannick Jadot said he wants to ban the hunt on weekends and during the school holidays. An idea “on which one must have a debate,” said the Minister of the ecological transition on Wednesday, Barbara Pompilili, ensuring that “the majority has no desire to prohibit hunting”.