A 25-year-old hiker was killed on Saturday, during a wild boar batter near Aurillac. Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon have again called to prohibit the hunt on weekends and during the school holidays.
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The subject of hunting is dramatically necessary in the presidential campaign, after death, Saturday, February 19, a 25-year-old woman, killed by a bullet during a beaten in the wild boar, in the commune of Cassaniouze (Cantal), near Aurillac.
The Prosecutor of the Republic in Aurillac, Paolo Giambiasi, announced to the France-Press agency (AFP) that the suspected person, a 17-year-old teenager, had been placed on Sunday morning custody – extended Sunday night – and that an investigation was open for “unintentional homicide”. In France, a minor, from the age of 15, is allowed to hunt in the presence and under the responsibility of a companion.
Immediately, the reactions have not failed on social networks and in the media. And this new deadly hunting accident reveals the cleavage between those who want to supervise this activity more severely, or to prohibit some days of the week, like the weekend, and those who do not want to stigmatize the 1,173 million hunters “Assets”, that is, in possession of a valid license in 2019, according to the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) – France is the European country with the largest number of hunters.
Do not go to the forest “The belly tone”
The ecologist candidate in the presidential election, Yannick Jadot, immediately expressed on Twitter : “No one should die because of hunting. I engaged in my program to ban the hunt on weekends and school holidays.” Jean-Luc Mélenchon The candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) also asked on France 3 the prohibition of hunting on weekends and during the school holidays. “Second, we have to stop selling weapons that are also powerful,” he added.
LFI side again, the member Manon Aubry estimated, on RMC, that “the forest must belong to hikers, walkers. Five days of the week are enough to hunt. We must not go to the forest the Straplessness. “
Conversely, Marine Le Pen, a candidate of the national rally, pleaded for the maintenance of traditional hunting. “If you prevent hunters from hunting on weekends, they will not be able to hunt because they work. (…) So, you have to succeed in finding the way so that walkers and hunters can safely enjoy of our extraordinary field, “she said in the issue” Political Issues “(France Inter-France Télévisions- Le Monde).
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