Lacoste: a hunter dies during a wild boar hunt
By APEI Press Agency
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updated on 26 Sep 22 at 17:58
Sunday, September 25, 2022, un man in his fifties was shot while participating in a wild boar hunt in Lacoste. Fr heart failure, firefighters were unable to revive the victim. information revealed by The Liberated Dauphine and revealed to Actu.fr by Florence Galtier, public prosecutor of Avignon.
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An investigation has been opened by the Avignon prosecutor’s office. The Pertuis gendarmerie brigade will have to demand if it’s an accident and, if so, the required circumstances that led to the death of the 50-year-old. The victim was part of the Lacoste hunting society. The mayor of the town confirmed at the microphone of France Blue Provence that the victim was a confirmed hunter, just like the people present around him.
A first death which occurs two weeks after the opening of the new season. Over the period 2021-2022, the French Office for Biodiversity recalled 90 crashes in total (bodily injuries related to the use of a hunting weapon), including eight fatalities. In order to reduce the number of accidents, on Wednesday September 14, a Senate committee mentioned the possibility of banning “alcohol and the use of narcotics while hunting” and “to align the blood alcohol level retained, the prohibition of narcotics as well as their respective sanctions with the rules in force in terms of the Highway Code. »
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