Global Outlook

 Days after the government proposed stricter regulations for the sport, a French hunter who fatally shot a Franco-British man he mistook for a wild boar received a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday. The hunt leader received a five-year ban and an 18-month suspended sentence from the court in Cahors, a town in southwest France, in addition to a lifetime hunting ban for the shooter. In 2020, when 25-year-old Morgan Keane was shot and killed while cutting wood close to his home in the village of Calvignac, it sparked an uproar. "I never stop thinking about it; it has permanently changed me. At the beginning of his trial for involuntary manslaughter in November, the gunman apologized to the court and acknowledged that he had not ‘selected the target’ ". The case rekindled hostilities between opponents of hunting and supporters of a rural pastime and activity that farmers consider essential for managing, in particular, deer and boar populations. Many pedestrians avoid fores...