French farmer jailed for killing suspected truffle thief
Laurent Rambaud receives eight-year sentence for shooting man he thought was stealing his trufflesA French farmer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting and killing a man he thought was stealing his truffles. Laurent Rambaud, 37, had grown increasingly frustrated with a spate of thefts in the south-eastern region of Drome.On the night of 20 December 2010, he headed out into his fields armed with a shotgun. He came across 43-year-old Ernest Pardo, who was known as a truffle hunt
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