Naturalist Pierre Rigaux, founder of the nos Viventia association, had shared video on social networks on Monday and filed a complaint.
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An investigation was opened in Châlons-en-Champagne, in particular for “provocation of minor to the commission of a crime” and “moral abandonment of minor”, following the broadcast of a video showing a child Completing a boar, encouraged by a hunter, we learned from the prosecution.
The public prosecutor of Châlons-en-Champagne, Ombeline Mahuzier, explained to the France-Presse agency (AFP) having “opened a flagration investigation” for these two offenses, as well as for “act of cruelty towards an animal “. The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmerie and the information “transmitted to the children’s judge for educational assistance,” she said.
The hunter “makes the boar ‘suffering last “
The naturalist Pierre Rigaux, founder of the Nos Viventia association (“We Les Vivants”), had shared video on social networks on Monday, in blurred version, announcing the filing of a complaint. The hunter implicated “himself published it on his Facebook account” on November 22, before “deleting it quickly,” Rigaux told AFP. “It’s a very violent scene”, showing “an end of hunting”, where a boar, “caught up in dogs and cornered, tries to take refuge” in brambles, described the naturalist. “The hunter and father of the child films the scene.” On the images, “the child holds a knife, and the father insists heavily so that his son will stab the boar, or” prick “, as he says” , he continued.
“In this kind of hunting, the hunter completes the animal with a stabbing weapon when he cannot do it to the rifle. Except that there, he asks his son, who seems to have 10 Or 12 years, “explains Mr. Rigaux. The little boy “seems to have trouble”, and awkwardly wears “several stabs”, he says. The hunter “thus lasts the suffering of the wild boar”, while the child “could have injured himself”.
The penal code “punishes acts of cruelty only for animals in captivity, domestic or tamed”. In this situation, “as it is captured and the agony lasts”, “the concept of captivity could be retained”, advanced Mr. Rigaux.