“What is Morgan’s life worth if nothing changes?” “In Cahors, the trial of the hunting incident as well

On December 2, 2020, Julien Ferrall went wild boar hunting with his Remington pump-action rifle, caliber 7 mm, at a distance of one kilometer. “The animal does not suffer with this weapon. With a short-range pellet gun, the animal can be hurt. I was advised to buy this, I followed this advice as I knew nothing about it. » It was only six months after this 35-year-old Aveyron got his license that he started hunting on the advice of his brother. “To clear my head about my daughter’s death”In 2018, at the age of 7, he was destroyed by a tractor whose driver drank too much.

It’s 4:30 p.m. on December 2, 2020, it’s gray, the day is waning, but the hunt, which unites about fifteen hunters, continues in the fields of Kajarki and Kalviniak in Lot. Earlier in the day, Julien Feral missed the pig four times, four failures that earned him the ridicule of his comrades. A fifth chance is offered to the neophyte, who meanwhile is placed on the edge of a small tree in another field. “I see this dark mass rise up into the underworld, descend a little, and stop. I say to myself, “Mashed potatoes, that’s the pig I missed!” I waited a few seconds. I aimed at him. I took it out. » In the 80m, Morgan Keene collapses. The bullet went through the lungs and heart.

This 25-year-old, taken by a hunter on a wild boar, was a local child, born here to an English father and an Alsatian mother who fell in love with the Causses du Quercy and settled in a small house. The house overlooking the lot is secluded in the heart of this small wood that also belonged to them. Mother died in 2016, father died in 2019. Morgan stayed there with her little brother, Rowan. When the accident happened, he was a few tens of meters from the house, he had gone out to cut firewood for the winter.

“It’s engraved in my head all my life”

“What is Morgan’s life worth if nothing changes?” »asks M.^e Benoit Cous, the lawyer of his little brother, on Thursday, November 17, in front of dozens of relatives of the victim who came to fill the courtroom of the Cahors court. Their mobilization in the wake of the tragedy – namely the creation of the collective Un jour, un chasseur – had a national impact and led to a Senate fact-finding mission on security issues, the findings of which were released in September. It was to be expected that a manslaughter trial would be a hunt.