The video had been posted by the father himself on Facebook before being spotted.
This is a particularly shocking video. We see a child of about ten years, invited by his father, has finished off a boar cornered by dogs. The child complies by trying to push his knife several times into the body of the animal without really succeeding while the boar howls. “Don’t be afraid, hurry up quickly […] Sting it in the heart”said the father.
The video was relayed on Monday by ecologist and naturalist Pierre Rigaux indicates France 3 Grand Est. It was originally posted at the end of November on the social networks of the father, a hunter from the Marne, who then removed it. “What is even more shocking is that the child is very young, he does not really want to go and there is a physical risk for him. He finds himself there in the middle dogs, he can fall at any time. It’s dangerous simply to give a knife to a child, to tell him to approach in the middle of the dogs in the brambles, against a boar who is obviously fighting for his survival “, explains Pierre Rigaux to our colleagues. He decided to file a complaint for acts of cruelty on an animal with the judicial court of Châlons-en-Champagne, on behalf of the association Nos Viventia (We the living), which he founded and which he chairs.
An investigation was opened by the court of Châlons-en-Champagne for “provocation of a minor to the commission of an offense” and “moral abandonment of a minor”. The prosecutor indicated that she had opened a flagrant investigation for these two offenses as well as for acts of cruelty to an animal. It is the gendarmes who are in charge of this investigation and the elements have been transmitted to the juvenile judge under the educational assistance.