Accidents, rurality ... We have verified three statements about hunting

• Yannick Jadot recently stood out for his statements on the dangers of hunting.

• The presidential candidate EELV found on his way Willy Schraen, president of the National Federation of Hunters, who counterattacked.

• 20 Minutes

  takes stock of certain figures put forward recently by the two personalities. 

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In recent weeks, the EELV candidate, Yannick Jadot, and the president of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC), Willy Schraen, have made a few remarks about this practice.

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Yannick Jadot, October 29, 2021 on BFMTV: “When I hear, and it is the surveys that show it, that three quarters of people who live in rural areas do not dare to go for a walk on Sundays when there are gunfire is not normal.

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, Yannick Jadot's team explains that this statement is based on two recent surveys.

The first, carried out by Ipsos for the animal rights association One Voice, dates back to September 2021 with a sample of 1,079 people, representative of the French population aged 16 to 75 years.

50% of them say “totally agree” and 33% “tend to agree” with the idea that “hunting poses safety problems for walkers during nature walks. », For a total approval of 83%.

The second survey, also carried out by Ipsos in September and entitled "Only 1 in 5 French people are in favor of hunting", questioned a sample of 1,079 people representative of French people aged 16 to 75.

The polling institute mentioned there, among its lessons, that “three quarters of French people living near a hunting area declare that they have already avoided walking in the forest or in certain areas for fear of a hunting accident.

"While noting" a strong increase in anti-hunting arguments among the inhabitants of rural areas ", since they are" 64% (+4 points) to consider that it is a cruel practice and 37% (+6 points) to declare that it is a polluting practice.

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Willy Schraen, November 1, 2021 in

 : "In twenty years, we have divided by four all accidents, whether fatal or bodily"

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, the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) specifies that "these are fatal accidents which have been divided by approximately four in twenty years: we went from 39 in 1999/2000 to 11 in 2019/2020 ". The FNC is based on statistics from the French Biodiversity Office (OFB), which clearly showed such a decrease over the last two decades in its 2019/2020 report, published in July 2020.

“In 20 years, the overall trend in hunting accidents has been declining. The number of accidents has thus decreased by 41% compared to its 1999 level and remains below the general average of the last twenty years which is 158 victims per year ”, also detailed the OFB, while noting that“ the The 2019-2020 season is despite everything more accident-prone than the previous one, with 141 victims against 131 ”. And over this same period, 11 fatal accidents were listed, against 7 during the previous season.

The French Biodiversity Office also specifies, in its report, that 90% of the victims of these accidents were hunters, and that their causes were mainly due to poor handling of the weapon, to "non-compliance with the" angle of 30 degrees ”or“ shots at breast height or in the direction of dwellings and roads open to traffic ”.

As we recently noticed, in the eyes of anti-hunting activists, these statistics on fatal accidents deserve to be qualified because they do not take into account, according to them, deaths that have occurred several weeks or months after an injury.

Yannick Jadot, October 29, 2021 on BFMTV: “The statistics prove it: 70% of hunters come from cities.

Stop telling us that it is the rural people who hunt!

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On this point, Yannick Jadot's team cites a study commissioned in 2015 by the National Federation of Hunters from BIPE, a strategy consulting firm. If we learn that the socio-professional profile of hunters is made up of 39% of executives and liberal professions and 21% of “employees” and only 8% of “farmers”, this figure of 70% does not does not appear there.

An Ifop study for the 2020 Bird Protection League (LPO), cited by Yannick Jadot's entourage to our colleagues from the

, also presents data collected during the 2017 presidential election from a sample of 39,000 people from which was "taken a sample of 1,058 people defining themselves as hunters". According to this survey, only 32.9% of hunters reside in a “rural commune”, against 67.2% (cumulatively) in towns of 2,000 to nearly 2 million inhabitants.

In the Ifop poll on the “report of the French to hunting and hunters” carried out for the FNC in February 2021 among 2,024 people, 48% of those surveyed living in “rural towns”, however, claimed to have their close entourage (family , friends), "one or more hunters".

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