An important gendarmerie device was deployed overnight from Saturday to Sunday in Côte-d’Or after a horse owner reported an intrusion into his meadow where an equine was injured with a knife, we learned. corroborating sources.
Around 2 o’clock in the morning in Losne, “the owner saw lamps in his meadow” and warned the gendarmes who sent 40 men into the field, supported by a helicopter, as well as a dog team, told the gendarmerie of Golden Coast. “A horse was injured in the flank. A not very deep wound according to the veterinary examination ”, specified the parquet floor of Dijon.
A mare mutilated and killed in Cantal
“Two men are wanted”, added the gendarmerie, which specifies that its research device was “gradually lightened in the morning and there are still about fifteen gendarmes at work for the continuation of the investigations”.
The Beaune research brigade and the Dijon research section, responsible for the investigation, went on site as well as the regional command.
In addition, in Cantal, in Riom-ès-Montagnes, a mare was found dead and particularly mutilated on Saturday evening. The owners found her in her pasture, “disembowelled, one ear less and the breasts cut”, the Aurillac prosecutor’s office said on Sunday, confirming information from the regional daily La Montagne. “Samples were taken during the autopsy to find out if the mutilations would have been inflicted post-mortem”, said the prosecution.
Call not to intervene yourself
With the proliferation of acts of mutilation of horses throughout France (at least thirty since the start of the year), the subject has become sensitive. Instructions were given to equine owners “to call the police and not to intervene themselves”, according to the gendarmes. Several breeders and horse owners told the Parisian about the measures they were taking, including rounds, with the risk of wanting to take justice into their own hands.
The Val-d’Oise, in the Paris region, recorded its first cases on Saturday: two mares, who did not die, one with a cut in the vulva and the other a cut of 30 cm on the side. They were parked in the same meadow in Grisy-les-Plâtres, a small rural town in Vexin.
All motivations are considered
In addition, Isère had its first case in Bonnefamille on August 30 with a ponette incised 20 cm under the left ear and two cuts on the posterior.
While such acts have already occurred in more than twenty departments, the central office for the fight against attacks on the environment and public health (OCLAESP) “coordinates” the follow-up of investigations to analyze them. elements. “All the procedural elements are gathered at the central criminal intelligence service,” Colonel Hubert Percie du Sert, coordinator of the judicial police sub-directorate of the gendarmerie, indicated this week.
