According to the reports, the 34-year-old mountain biker was out and about on a popular and frequently used route on Saturday evening. According to regional sources, he should not have been there at dusk during the hunting season, and the hunter probably mistook him for a wild animal. According to the prosecutor, however, the mountain biker was wearing a colored helmet and was riding a colored mountain bike. The 22-year-old shooter, who has a firearms license, was traveling with a group of around 20 other hunters when the crime was committed.

While hunting accidents are rare in Switzerland and even rarer with injured third parties, the incidents that attract media attention are becoming more frequent in France. The case of a Swiss man who gunned down four donkeys in an open field in France is well remembered by the Swiss. Last year - also in France - a 59-year-old hiker was shot dead in Drôme. A year earlier, a woman died in her garden after a hunter shot through her garden hedge. In 2016, there were 18 fatal hunting accidents in France.www.thesun.co.uk/news/7491019/british-cyclist-marc-sutton-french-alps-shot-dead-first-pictures