The girl, indicted by the manvoluntary chief of homicide, was placed under judicial review with “prohibition to hold or wear a weapon”, according to the Aurillac Prosecutor.
Le Monde with AFP
The 17-year-olds suspected of pulling the shot that killed a hiker Saturday during a beaten to the wild boars in the Cantal was indicted by the manvoluntary homicide chief, announced the prosecutor Aurillac Tuesday, February 22.
The girl was placed under judicial review with “prohibition of holding or wearing a weapon,” said the Prosecutor, Paolo Giambiasi, in a statement. It had been placed in custody on Sunday in the open investigation for unintentional homicide.
Open judicial information Tuesday “will focus on determining the positions and moments of shots” during the battery, depending on the floor. “The auditions of the witnesses of the facts and hunters who participated in the beaten have highlighted that several shots had been drawn as part of this hunt,” had noted the parquet on Monday. An autopsy of the victim’s body should take place on Tuesday morning.
hospitalized before being heard
Saturday afternoon, in the town of Cassaniouze, in the south of the department, a 25-year-old woman was touched by a shooting “partly from the body, at the left level”. “Conscious initially”, she died on the spot “despite the first aids lavished in particular by the man with whom she was walking,” said the magistrate.
“Immediately after the shot”, the 17-year-old teenager presented as the launcher. In shock, it was first hospitalized before being heard by the investigators Sunday.
Producing a rule hunting license, she explained to the gendarmes having targeted a wild boar, then heard the cry of a man at a path where she then went.
“A drama that questions”
This deadly accident has revived the debate on hunting, in the middle of the presidential campaign, candidates calling for prohibiting his practice on weekends and during the holidays. “This is a drama that questions,” said Monday the Minister of the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompilili, on the sidelines of a trip to Tarbes.
“You have to take into account the weight of the responsibility that we put on a little young shoulder. Do not fall into the demagogic outbidding, but also look how a girl so young can end up with a weapon in The arms, “she added.
Asked about the implementation of days without hunting, the minister recalled that “it exists”. “You have to think about how to better reconcile hunters and all the users of nature. We must look at that territory by territory,” she said.