After the death of a hiker near Aurillac (Cantal), killed by a stray bullet by a participant in a wild boar hunt, many politicians are again calling for the banning of this hobby on weekends.

The walker was traveling on a marked path with her companion when she was hit.

The public prosecutor in Aurillac, Paolo Giambisi, indicated that the author of the shot, a 17-year-old girl, was placed in police custody on Sunday morning for manslaughter.

Tested negative for narcotics and alcohol, she was hospitalized on Saturday in shock.

The left calls for a weekend ban

"There is the question of experience," said the Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Bérangère Abba, adding that the hunter had obtained her license at 16 years old.

"If it turns out that we still have things to strengthen, we will," she added, recalling having announced "the creation of a geolocation app in which we could know around us where the beatings take place”.

The drama has once again revived the old French quarrel between the pros and the anti hunters.

“We need more regulation of this activity, it is urgent!

“, had claimed on Saturday the environmental candidate for president, Yannick Jadot.

"Hunting must not be possible on weekends and during school holidays, because that's where the risk would be greatest," said the leader of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France3.

Secondly, we must stop selling weapons that are so powerful”.

Marine Le Pen supports hunters

“I consider that hunting is an ancestral tradition and that it must be maintained, pleaded Marine Le Pen, of the National Rally, on France Inter.

If you prevent hunters from hunting on weekends, they won't be able to hunt because they work hunters anyway.

So we have to succeed in finding a way so that walkers and hunters can safely enjoy our extraordinary domain.

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Evoking his "sadness", the president of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC), Willy Schraen, indicated that "all the federations of hunters" are being contacted "so that all the rules are recalled of security" and that a meeting will be requested "from the beginning of next week of all the nature federations to recall the security devices".

France has 1.2 million active hunters, out of some four million with a permit.

It is the only European country allowing to practice every day during the season.

A petition calling for a ban on hunting on Wednesdays and Sundays had collected more than 120,000 signatures last fall and prompted the Senate to create a commission on security.

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