A hunter with his rifle (illustration). - Vincent Wartner / 20 Minutes

One Saturday in October 2017, a 69-year-old resident of Taussac, in Aveyron, was accidentally killed in her garden with a shotgun while she was behind her hedge. The man thought he saw the shadow of a deer moving.

Three years after the facts, the author of the shot, a fifty-something member of the local hunting society, was sentenced Wednesday to twelve months in prison suspended by the correctional court of Rodez reports Center Press Aveyron.

Consumed by remorse and punishment according to the daily, the man had been indicted for "manslaughter by willful breach of a security obligation". The judge also issued a ban on holding a weapon for five years, the withdrawal of the hunting license for ten years and ordered him to pay € 8,000 in damages.

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