Hunting is not a game or a sport.

An emotional Facebook message from the widow of a man killed when he was accidentally shot by a hunter while running in the French Alps has given renewed weight to those calling for a crackdown on the sport.

The grieving widow of a man killed by a shot to the head in a hunting accident in the French Alps has spoken out accusing the hunters of “killing” her loved one.In a moving message that has been shared nearly 30,000 times on Facebook, the woman named Mélanie described the moment her husband, the father of their two children, was killed while they were out for an afternoon jog.The pair were trail running on Saturday December 5th on the slopes of Mount Semnoz in the French Alps.

Her husband Gael Lavy, was shot in the head by a 20-year-old hunter, who apparently mistook him for a boar.But in her Facebook message Mélanie slams those responsible for her husband’s death, in a message that will further enhance the arguments of those calling for a crackdown on the sport.

Here’s her message:

“It has been many year’s since I have written anything on Facebook, but now it’s different…“It was me who held him in my arms for 15 minutes before the paramedics came, his head blown apart.“On this Saturday December 5th, we did not come across any sign on the paths we took.“We did however cross paths with a hunter around 100 metres before the shot was fired. We said hello to him but he did not respond, instead he turned his back, rather than making us aware that there were six or seven hunters higher up the track.“We were speaking loudly, I was dressed in pink and blue, the ground was open and we were about 10 metres from the road that goes up to Semnoz.“One minute later, I heard a terrible shot and I turned around to see my husband was on the ground, the bullet had blown his jaw apart“On that day, we followed the rules, not them. On that day, my husband was not the victim of an accident, he was killed. On that day, we came across murderers.

“Hunting is not a game.“My husband was 1.82m tall and weighed 83 kilograms, and looked nothing like a wild boar.“He was handsome, he had two little girls. We were happy.

“What are we meant to do now?”

Val says yet another hunting death that will be classed as an accident. If it was Malc I would feel like that lady, it is a crime.
Taken from the Local

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