Rifleman shocks city centre with duck shoot

Wednesday, 20 October 2021 05:59

Passers-by in Dubendorf in canton Zurich were shocked when a man armed with a rifle shot a duck on a pond during the middle of the day.

Yesterday afternoon the man calmly walked along the pedestrian street Fischerweg, took out a rifle, loaded it and shot the duck.

Witnesses say people ran away and children were scared.

But the man is a gamekeeper and he’d been asked to help a duck in distress.

Louis Wirtz, the rifleman, says he was called as the duck had a plastic ring around its neck and was starving to death.

The police confirmed they were fully aware of the operation.

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