The victim was touched by a shot from her companion when she was invited to a wild boar, on Sunday, in Goudelin (Côtes-d’Armor).
Le Monde with AFP
A hunting accident killed on Sunday. A 67-year-old Briton died after being seriously injured accidentally by a rifle shot from his companion, who participated with other hunters in a wild boar in Goudelin (Côtes-d’Armor), we learned of judicial source.
According to the Public Prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc, Nicolas Heitz, the author of the fire is the victim’s companion, aged 69. “In circumstances remaining to be determined”, this man proceeded during a beaten to wild boars to a “shot with his rifle which he wore in the shoulder, cannon directed back”, reaching his partner.
Invited to this beaten, her partner received the ball that caused “a wound (…) above the heart,” added the magistrate in a press release. She was transported by firefighters to Saint-Brieuc hospital where she died at midday.
neither alcohol nor toxic substance
According to the prosecutor, the facts occurred during a wild boar hunt which brought together a dozen hunters, and two invited people. “The hunters progressed in a mowed corn field” when the facts occurred, added the prosecutor, who went immediately on the spot.
The author of the gunshot was placed in police custody and transported to Guingamp hospital, before police custody was raised because his condition was not “compatible” with this measure, explained Mr. Heitz, specifying that immediately taken withdrawals “have shown that he had not consumed alcohol, nor toxic substance”.
The victim was transported to the Rennes Medical Institute for an autopsy which will take place on Wednesday. 2>
eight fatal accidents last season
According to the magistrate, “a flagration investigation by the manslaughter in a hunting action was opened”. He entrusted the investigations in Cosaisine to the research brigade of the Saint-Brieuc company and to the French Biodiversity Office.
For the last hunting season, in winter 2021-2022, Ofb had identified eight fatal hunting accidents , two of which had affected non -chase, out of 90 accidents in total – characterized by bodily injuries linked to the use of a weapon.