I hate these stories but they are always happening in the winter "chasse" months. It never seems so bad when they shoot each other but so often it is an innocent bystander.
The elderly vigneron of 70 years working in his fields tying his vines took a bullet to the stomach and died afterwards in hospital. The chasse were out hunting sangliers 15 miles from Arles. It will be classed as a " homicide involuntaire" an accidental killing. I have already done a post about how the chasseurs have to take tests, trouble is half the ones I see around the lanes here do not look bright enough to know their names, never mind write them. One wonders what the test is like and are these hunters banned from drinking at lunch time before going out in to the fields again. I know sangliers and deer need controlling but the stories one hears about the chasse make you think there must be safer ways.
Give me a live vigneron and a problem with sangliers any day.
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