Should we introduce “days without hunting” ? Created following a petition asking for the measure, a Senate mission answered no on Wednesday, September 14, while proposing a series of new rules, including a ban on the consumption of alcohol and narcotics while hunting.
The mission had been set up last November, after more than 120,000 people had signed on the site of the upper assembly a petition launched by the collective “Un jour un chasseur”, created following the death of a young man 25 year old Morgan Keane, “shot by a hunter while chopping wood in his garden” in the Lot. In particular, it called for the establishment of “Sundays and Wednesdays without hunting” or even of “protective distances around residential areas which are equal to the maximum range of weapons”.
On the days without hunting, advocated during the presidential campaign by candidates Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the mission rejected “a uniform national rule”while saying “convinced that local demands must be heard”. She therefore suggests “allow prefects to limit hunting days and times to ensure people’s safety” and establish a “mandatory prior declaration of big game hunts”, the most accident-prone.
According to figures from the French Office for Biodiversity, the number of hunting accidents has been on a downward trend for twenty years. For the 2021/22 season, “The OFB has identified 90 hunting accidents in total (bodily injuries related to the use of a hunting weapon), including eight fatalities. Among these, two involved non-hunter victims”. Opponents of hunting point out that the number of hunters is decreasing, this decrease is normal. According to the figures cited by the senatorial mission, in twenty years the number of accidents has fallen by 46%, that of deaths by 74%, while the number of hunters has fallen less, by 29%.
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Instead, it suggests creating “an offense of obstructing the carrying out of legal sporting or leisure activities”, a claim by hunters against activists who are trying in particular to prevent hunting with hounds. She also rejects the idea of protective distances, emphasizing that they “would lead, given the range of weapons, to ban hunting in a large part of France”. On the other hand, it offers“prohibit alcohol and the use of narcotics while hunting” and D’“align the blood alcohol level retained, the prohibition of narcotics as well as their respective sanctions with the rules in force in terms of the Highway Code”.
Among the 30 proposals are also measures to strengthen training, without raising the age of obtaining the license but in “generalizing tutoring”, or the obligation to pass a first aid certificate and an annual medical examination. The president of the National Federation of Hunters Willy Schraen denounced “totally exaggerated proposals and for some stigmatizing”. On alcohol, he pointed out that he was involved in “7% of hunting accidents [9% selon la mission sénatoriale]much less than on the road”. “What right do you have to reserve that for hunters, a drunk guy on a bike is dangerous too”he fumed.
Exposing the Big Game 
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Not sure how to pronounce Fudd in French, but there are plenty of them out there.