This Wednesday, October 30, 2024, a man was hit by a bullet accidentally fired by a hunter during a wild boar hunt in Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the PACA region. Seriously injured, the man had to have his left leg amputated.
A simple mushroom picking with friends in November turns into a tragedy. A 38-year-old man had to have his leg amputated after being accidentally shot last Wednesday, reports said. Var-morning. The 30-year-old was shot by an 82-year-old hunter who mistook him for a wild boar.
Donovan, a young Hyérois resident, was hit in the tibia and had to be transported to hospital with a life-threatening prognosis; he had to undergo amputation of part of his leg.
“There was no sign, I don’t hear the dogs or the cars”
Interviewed by our colleagues from Var-morning, the 38-year-old man spoke in detail about the circumstances of the accident. “Going down I didn't see them coming, I didn't hear the dogs, the cars, or the guys posted. I was about a hundred meters from the car, it was clear, the area was very lightly wooded, I was going back up the path where the hunter was. I hadn't even seen him and all of a sudden I heard an explosion, I thought I had stepped on a mine…”, he declared.
Subsequently, he explains that he started shouting to the man who was with him: “Baptiste, Baptiste, help me I'm going to die“, before continuing “my leg had exploded, there was nothing left. He shot me with something like an elephant from 20m away… I don't know exactly where he was, I didn't see him shoot. But when we didn't don't see, in any case you shouldn't shoot into the bushes.”
“I just want the people who did this to me to pay and for the person who shot to stop saying I was crouching and he thought it was a wild boar,” he insists. “I was standing with the mushroom basket in my hand.”
