Two years after the death of Morgan Keane, six months in prison and a final ban on hunting were required on Thursday against two men tried for manslaughter, in this case which has become emblematic.
by Henri Seckel (Cahors, Special Envoy)
On December 2, 2020, Julien Féral went to hunt the boar with his pumping Remington rifle, caliber seven millimeters, a kilometer. “With this weapon, the animal does not suffer. With a short lead rifle, the animal can suffer. I was advised to buy this, I followed this advice, since I knew about it Nothing. “It’s been six months since this Aveyronnais, now 35 years old, had obtained his license, he had hunted on the advice of his brother-in-law. “To get my head, compared to the death of my daughter”, crushed in 2018 at the age of 7 by a tractor whose driver had drunk too much.
It is 4:30 p.m. this December 2, 2020, it is gray, the day declines but the battered which brings together fifteen hunters continues in the fields of Cajarc and Calvignac, in the lot. Earlier in the day, Julien Féral missed a boar four times, four failures which earned him the mockery of his comrades. A fifth chance is offered to the neophyte who, in the meantime, was posted in another field, on the edge of a small wood. “I see this dark mass going up in the undergrowth, going back down a little and stop. I say to myself:” Puree, it’s the boar that I missed! “I waited a few seconds. I have I targeted. I fired. “80 meters away, Morgan Keane collapses. The ball crossed the lungs and the heart.
This 25 -year -old young man, whom the hunter took for a boar, was a child in the country, born here of an English father and an Alsatian mother who fell in love with the causses of Quercy, and came to settle In a small house overlooking the lot, isolated in the heart of this little wood which also belonged to them. The mother died in 2016. The father died in 2019. Morgan had stayed there with his little brother, Rowan. When the accident occurred, it was a few tens of meters from the house, it had come out cutting wood for the winter.
“It is engraved for life”
“What’s worth the life of Morgan if nothing changes?” Asks M e Benoît Coussy, lawyer for his little brother, Thursday, November 17, under the eyes of dozens of relatives of the victim came to fill the courtroom of the Cahors court. Their mobilization in the wake of the drama – in particular the creation of the collective one day, a hunter – had a national impact, and launched an information mission of the Senate on security issues, whose conclusions were made public in September. It was predictable that this manual for manslaughter would be that of hunting.
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