On Thursday a 61-year-old hunter accidentally killed his own son during a hunting party in the Ardèche region, after mistaking him for a wild boar, according to reports in Ouest France newspaper.
Initial reports say the man opened fire after seeing a shadow pass by. Tragically, the shadow was not the wild boar he thought he had aimed at, but was in fact his own son.
Efforts were made to resuscitate the man but he died at the scene. The father, overcome with shock and grief, collapsed and had to be admitted to hospital, Ouest France reports.
The fatal accident came in the same week that a six-year-old boy died in the north of France, days after being shot during a hunt.
Val says This is interesting, this first report in a newspaper called the Local and another Ouest France, as I think the first death reported was the one that the Depeche did a hasty retraction and apology to the family, to the fact they said the father killed the son. The son died as I recall in an accident with a rifle but was not shot by his father.
However two more needless hunting deaths must put pressure on the government to tighten laws.
I have signed the petition sent by Charlotte Organ seeking stricter controls.
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