Wounded by gunshot, a hunter dies during a hunt, the prosecution does not exclude any leads

In the town of Coly-Saint-Amand (Dordogne), there is incomprehension. Hunters leading a hunt on Sunday, November 3, said they heard a gunshot. Shortly after, they discovered one of the participants on the ground, suffering from a “gunshot wound to the abdomen”.

According to France Bleu Périgord, the people present tried for a long time to resuscitate the injured hunter. Despite the intervention of firefighters and emergency services, the victim died on the spot. An investigation is opened by the Périgueux public prosecutor's office to determine the precise circumstances of the death. The hunters present during the hunt were interviewed by the gendarmes on Sunday.

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“We went to school together”

“No one knows what happened,” explains Vincent Geoffroid, the village mayor. The elected official raises the hypothesis of an “accident”, or “perhaps poor handling of[un] rifle”. The 49-year-old man was a regular and “had always hunted” confide local residents. The city councilor claims that the hunter was a “friend”: “we went to school together”, assures -he.

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The victim was a farmer, detail our colleagues from France Bleu “He lived with his parents on the farm a few hundred meters from the scene of the accident”.

Unable to comment on the origin of the tragedy, the prosecution is not ruling out any leads for the time being. An autopsy must be carried out on the victim's body.