A hunter shot and killed a competition mare while she was on private property. The accident occurred on November 6 in Nièvre, reports France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Altesse de la Serre, the name of the animal, had been resting in this meadow for almost three years. She was 14 years old, eight of them in training, and was valued at around 30,000 euros.
« The hunters came to tell me that there had been an accident at my house and that they had killed one of my horses.tells Diane de Charmasse, the horse breeder who welcomed the victim on her land, to our colleagues. I told myself that they had made a mistake and that the horse was injured, so I ran off to treat my horse. » But upon arrival, the mare died. The bullet hit her in the shoulder and lodged “ right in front of the heart ”, she said.
“He shot anyway”
Diane de Charmasse calls the police and the hunter shows up with his insurance certificate. “He explained to me that we shouldn't make too much of a fuss, that in any case he was assuredreports the breeder. He explained to me that he had seen the herd of horses panicking, but that he had shot anyway. He told me that he had killed a wild boar at the same time, but in the version he gave to the police there was no more wild boar. »
The one who calls herself “pro-hunting” does not understand how the accident could have happened. “ He shot the mare 70 yards away in open ground. There was a little bit of relief, so she was above him, there's no darting, nothing at all. This can't be an accident. An accident is a ricocheting bullet or something, but here it's a guy who entered private property, who saw a herd of horses and who fired “, she continues.
“Something that makes me angry”
The owner of the mare, Jean-Marie Bazire, is not upset either. : “ What I find very worrying is that the hunter was able to confuse a 1.70 m gray mare with a 70 cm brown boar.he blurted. Someone needs to explain it to me because it’s still something that makes me angry.. » He should file a complaint, just like the breeder and the owner of the land.
The investigation was entrusted jointly to soldiers from the gendarmerie of the Compagnie de Château-Chinon, as well as environmental inspectors from the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB). This Monday, the public prosecutor specified to Le Figaro that “several offenses are possible” if the intentional element is characterized. The hunter also risks losing his license.
