The 17-year-old girl, the alleged perpetrator of the shooting that killed a hiker on Saturday during a wild boar fight in Cantal, will be taken to court in Aurillac on Tuesday, the prosecutor said on Monday.
The girl was taken into custody on Sunday in the investigation opened for manslaughter. Judicial information must be opened on Tuesday, which “will focus in particular on determining the positions and times of shooting” during the beat, according to the prosecution.
“The hearings of the witnesses of the facts and of the hunters who participated in the hunt revealed that several shots had been fired in the context of this hunt”, noted Aurillac prosecutor Paolo Giambiasi in a press release.
An autopsy of the victim’s body will take place Tuesday morning.
Saturday followingnoon, in the town of Cassaniouze, in the south of the department, a 25-year-old woman was hit by a shot “in the upper part of the body, on the left level”. “Aware at first”, she died on the spot “despite the first aid provided in particular by the man with whom she was walking”, specified the magistrate.
“Immediately following the shot”, the 17-year-old presented herself as the author of the shot. In shock, she was first hospitalized before being heard by investigators on Sunday.
Producing a hunting license in order, she explained to the gendarmes that she had targeted a boar, shot, then heard the cry of a man at the level of a path where she then went.
This fatal accident has reignited the debate on hunting in the middle of the presidential campaign, with candidates calling for its practice to be banned on weekends and during holidays.
“It’s a drama that questions,” said Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili on Monday, on the sidelines of a trip to Tarbes.
“You have to take into account the weight of the responsibility that you put on somewhat young shoulders. You must not fall into demagogic one-upmanship but also look at how such a young girl can end up with a gun in her arms.”
Asked regarding the possible establishment of days without hunting, the minister recalled that “it exists”: “we must think regarding how to better reconcile hunters and all users of nature. We must look at this territory by territory”, a- she said.
