On Tuesday, students at a school in Amiens were brought to safety after fighter fire near the school.
The town hall took a municipal decree on Thursday to establish a perimeter without hunting.
Any hunting action is now prohibited within 150 m of homes and public facilities.
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Contrary to popular belief, nothing prohibits hunters from hunting near homes or places open to the public.
If the said hunters do not shoot in the direction of buildings, roads, stadiums... A tolerance that sometimes creates problems, even leads to accidents.
Tuesday, in Amiens, in the Somme, if there was no drama, the children of a school still got away with a great fright.
The parents of students at Les Violettes school were very upset.
Twice, Tuesday morning and in the afternoon, the children heard shots in the immediate vicinity of the school, especially when they were at recess.
So much so that the students participating in a cross-school had to be put in safety as a precaution.
The families had put forward the idea of launching a petition to demand a ban on hunting near the establishment.
In the end, they didn't need it.
Thursday, the town hall of Amiens issued a municipal decree to this effect.
A no-hunting zone of 150 m
The city goes even further, considering in particular that the "departmental hunting management plan has shortcomings in terms of exclusion zones very close to dwellings or communal facilities".
The municipal decree establishes a kind of general exclusion zone, "prohibiting any hunting action, in particular shooting", within a perimeter of 150 m around residential areas from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and around equipment. municipal (schools, stadiums, etc.) from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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Picardy
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