“It was not an accident”: woman accuses hunter of deliberately killing her 30,000 euro mare

Could he have confused a mare and a wild boar? A hunter shot down an equine on Wednesday, November 8, in the small town of Isenay (Nièvre) reports France 3. However, the horse was located in a private breeding meadow as explained by the woman Diane de Charmasse who took care of it. It was the hunters themselves who came to tell him the tragedy. “They came to tell me that there had been an accident at my house and that they had killed one of my horses,” she tells our colleagues.

The remains of his animal were found on his property, provoking his anger. “She was killed in a place where they must have been in the meadow […] He shot the mare 70 yards away in open ground, it can't have been an accident. An accident is a ricocheting bullet or something, but this is a guy who entered private property, who saw a herd of horses and who fired,” she fumes.

What about the boar?

The hunter then showed up to give his insurance certificate and tried to mitigate the facts. “He explained to me that we shouldn’t make too much of a fuss, that he was insured anyway. And that he had killed a wild boar at the same time,” says the horse breeder. Problem is, in the version given to the police, the perpetrator did not mention this wild boar and no animal was found.

Beyond the sadness of having lost her mare – which was valued at nearly 30,000 euros because she was a regular in show jumping competitions at the national level – it is the incomprehension which predominates for her owner , Jean-Marie Bazire. “I find it worrying that the hunter was able to confuse a 1m70 gray mare with a 70cm brown boar,” he complains to France 3.

Prosecutions will be initiated by the owner while Diane de Charmasse and the owner of the meadow have already filed a complaint. The Nevers public prosecutor, contacted by our colleagues, confirmed that the mare had “been shot by a hunter” and that an investigation had been opened and entrusted to the French Biodiversity Office (OFB).