“I thought it was a boar”: a hunter sentenced to having killed another in a cornfield in Occitania, his hunting license withdrawn

An 83 -year -old hunter who had accidentally killed another during a wild boar. Nevertheless, in Ariège in 2019, was sentenced Tuesday, June 24 in Foix (Ariège) to two years in suspended prison.

He had accidentally shot an experienced 70 -year -old hunter in Varilhes, while he was in a cornfield.

The Foix Criminal Court. Furthermore, which made its deliberation on Tuesday, also ordered the withdrawal of its hunting permit for three years and the ban on holding a weapon.

The director of the hunt was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence while the local hunting association. “i thought it boar”: hunter the green oak, was sentenced to a suspended fine.

“I thought it was a boar. ” said the shooter at the hearing on May 13, regretting that the victim did not wear a fluorescent vest.

“I removed the life of this man. it is an accident, but there is no word strong enough to say my compassion for the family,” he said.

“An enthusiast of dog work” – "i thought it boar": hunter

According to the testimony given by Philippe Gaychet. the son of the victim to France 3 Occitanie In June 2023, the facts took place on October 26, 2019. A hunt was then organized in Varilhes, on a Saturday in the middle of the morning.

“Several hunters take part: the father of Philippe Gaychet. ‘An enthusiast of the work of dogs’ is responsible for identifying if wild boars are present on a field of corn,” says the newspaper.

Upon his return. hunting has “i thought it boar”: hunter already started: a man then pulls from a Mirador, without ensuring his target, thinking of seeing a boar in the field. He fatally touched Philippe Gaychet’s father.

“He drew 12 meters away” recalls the latter. That day, the victim’s grandson, who followed the latter during the battues, was not present.

“He (the adolescent editor’s note) was traumatized for two weeks after the accident. ” his father Philippe Gaychet told our colleagues, also deploring that the hunting manager did not wait for his father’s return before hunting.

Since then, the Gaychet family has moved to avoid staying close to the place of the accident.