The Director of the Beat during which the hunting accident happened to him was sentenced to eighteen months in prison sentence.
The court followed the prosecutor’s requisitions over the duration of the conviction, but did not pronounce a prison sentence. The hunter who killed, in 2020, the Franco-British Morgan Keane in the Lot was sentenced Thursday by the Correctional Court of Cahors to two years in prison suspended and a ban on hunting for life, while the public prosecutor had required a six -month imprisonment.
The Director of the Beat during which the hunting accident occurred to him sentenced to eighteen months suspended prison sentence and a withdrawal of the hunting permit for five years.
On December 2, 2020, Morgan Keane, 25, was cutting wood on a land belonging to him, near the village of Calvignac, when he was reached by a ball pulled by a hunter who had taken him For a boar.
several irregularities
The death of Morgan Keane has become emblematic of the difficulties of cohabitation between hunters and other rural people, often opposed to this practice. At the audience, on November 17, the 35 -year -old hunter, “sorry” of his gesture, had admitted not to have “well identified the target”.
The investigation highlighted that he did not know the premises, that he had been posted in a badly chosen place without having received the necessary safety instructions, and that several irregularities had been noted in the course of The battered.
Monday, the government finally dismissed the idea of establishing a day without hunting, preferring to supervise the practice, by prohibiting it under the influence of alcohol and by strengthening the safety rules. He had mentioned at the end of October the idea of half a day without hunting, established at the local level and why not national, specifying that a ban on Sunday was “not a taboo subject”.