A 30,000 euro competition horse killed by a hunter on private property

A competition mare was killed by a hunter's shot while she was on private property on Wednesday in Isenay (Nièvre), reports France 3 Bourgogne. The Nevers public prosecutor confirmed Thursday that the mare had “been shot by a hunter”. She specifies that the investigation was entrusted to the French Biodiversity Office (OFB). “It is necessary to verify under what conditions this shot was carried out. »

Nicknamed Altesse de la Serre, the 14-year-old mare was a regular at competitions, particularly show jumping. It was valued at 30,000 euros.

“It can’t be an accident”

For horse breeder Diane de Charmasse, whose home the mare was, “it can’t be an accident. » “There, it was a guy who entered a private property, who saw a herd of horses and who shot,” she confided to France 3. The hunter himself had come to find her, to explain to him that while trying to shoot a wild boar, there had been an accident with a horse. He said he was off the property.

“Angry”, the owner of the horse, Jean-Marie Bazire, asks for his part “how could the hunter confuse a 1.70 meter gray mare with a 70 cm brown boar?” »