Overview
- Authorities say a 76-year-old man was placed in police custody after a wild boar was shot at the edge of the Cap-Sud shopping area in Châteauroux.
- Footage filmed by a passing motorist shows the shot fired within centimeters of vehicles near a busy road; no injuries were reported.
- Prosecutors opened an inquiry for mise en danger d’autrui, citing preliminary findings that hunters lacked mandatory fluorescent vests and fired from a risky position close to traffic.
- The shooter’s firearm was confiscated, and the prosecutor has requested the withdrawal of his hunting license, according to Franceinfo.
- The Indre hunters’ federation condemned the conduct and signaled it could join the case as a civil party, while animal-protection groups pressed for tighter rules near urban zones and coverage noted record boar culls last season.