A motorist is between life and death after being hit by a bullet while traveling between Rennes and Nantes on Saturday, said the prosecution which favors the thesis of a hunting accident.
A motorist was between life and death Sunday after being hit by a bullet while traveling between Rennes and Nantes on Saturday, said the prosecution which favors the thesis of a hunting accident.
A hunter in custody
A hunter, placed in police custody a few hours after the accident, should be presented to an examining magistrate on Monday morning unless there is a last minute twist in the investigation, said deputy prosecutor Matthieu Thomas in a press release at the end of Sunday. daytime.
The prosecution intends to seize this judge “of an introductory indictment (…) of the count of involuntary injuries during a hunting action by clearly deliberate violation of an obligation of safety or prudence”, specifies the deputy prosecutor.
Investigation for unintentional injury
Investigators from the Redon research brigade carried out a reconstruction of the facts on Sunday which reinforced the hypothesis of a hunting accident, according to this source. An investigation for unintentional injuries has been opened.
The accident occurred on Saturday between Laillé and Orgères (Ille-et-Vilaine) while the driver and a passenger were traveling on the four-lane between Rennes and Nantes. A 9.3 mm caliber bullet hit the vehicle, seriously injuring the driver in the neck.
Seriously engaged vital prognosis
This 67-year-old man was rushed to Rennes University Hospital in critical condition. His state of health “still inspires the most serious concerns, the vital prognosis remaining seriously engaged,” said the magistrate on Sunday evening.
The passenger of the vehicle suffers for its part from limited physical consequences, according to this source.
According to the daily West France, who revealed the story, the passenger, shocked but unharmed, managed to control the vehicle and park it on the side before calling the emergency services.
The president of the federation of hunters of Ille-et-Vilaine, André Douard, cannot explain the tragedy.
“It’s tragic. My first thoughts are with” the victim, he told an AFP correspondent.
A septuagenarian hunter
“The shooter was stationed about 500 m from the four-lane,” he added. “But it’s not possible (to reach the victim, editor’s note) since, when I look where I am, in front of me, I have an obstacle, I have a hedge which is 150/200 m away, which would already have had to stop the ball normally. And, beyond, there are still trees; and, there, the four-lane overhangs the trees of 2.50 meters, “he explained.
The man arrested “is a hunter around 70, someone in good shape. How could it be done? (…) I do not want to justify the hunter’s shooting, I try to understand”, a added M. Douard.
This new accident comes after the EELV presidential candidate Yannick Jadot said Friday he wanted to ban hunting during weekends and school holidays.
He justified his proposal by evoking the many hunting accidents affecting individuals, taking the example the day before of a “walker in Haute-Savoie, who was shot next to a cemetery”.