Launched at the beginning of September, an online petition on the Senate site calling for measures against the “dead, violence and abuse of hunting” had collected, Tuesday, nearly 90,000 signatures.
Le Monde with AFP
At the heart of a hectic debate around the practice of hunting in France, the Senate announced, Tuesday, November 9, the creation of a mission on the issue of security, after noticing “a strong accession” at A petition on her site, Claimant Measures against “dead, violence and abuse related to hunting”.
The High Assembly is committed to examining the petitions filed on its site which collects more than 100,000 signatures in six months, it did not collect only 86,000 for the moment. But the petition, launched on September 10 by the collective one day a hunter, continued to mobilize Tuesday afternoon. In anticipation, the Senate has therefore decided to create a “joint mission” between the economic affairs and laws commissions.
“We want the Senate to examine in depth, far from the emotion and pre-election agitation, the issue of security at hunting, the regulation on the holding of hunting weapons and the sanctions that may Resulting possible offenses, “said the Republicans (LR) of the Economic Affairs Committee, Sophie Primas. “We fully share the pain of the families of victims and everything must be done to avoid such dramas,” she still said. For the senator, “nothing serves to throw the anathema on the hunters, we must study and put in place the efficient and proven solutions”.
“Leaving debate for or antichasse”
The mission, “plural in its political composition”, will be vocation, “as soon as it is put in place” to hear all stakeholders: the promoters of the petition, representatives of the hunters and the personalities and administrations competent, “in order to to lead to concrete proposals possibly of legislative scope “. In addition, a comparative legislation study of the various devices in several countries will be conducted. Finally, “a first assessment of the 2019 reform on hunting safety (safety training, retention and suspension of the license to hunt in case of serious accident …) will have to be established.”.
For François-Noël Buffet, President LR of the Law Commission, “You have to get out of the debate for or Antichasse and go to the bottom of things”. “Hunting is a legal and popular activity in our country. It must be safe for non-hunters as for hunters. The use of firearms implies, of course, a strengthened security,” he added .
A motorist died on November 5, after shooting a hunter, while he was traveling between Rennes and Nantes. Aged 67, he had been hurt by the neck and died five days after suites of his injuries. The hunter had been indicted for “involuntary injuries” first, then, after the death of the motorist, for “manslaughter in a hunting action by obviously deliberate violation of an obligation security or prudence “.