French Police Urge Vigilance As Horse Mutilations Mount
Umer Jamshaid Published August 18, 2020 | 02:10 PM
Paris, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Aug, 2020 ) :French police have urged people to be on the lookout for criminals who have been going around farms and meadows mutilating horses, mostly while alive, taking body parts for unknown reasons.
About 15 horses have been found dismembered across the country in recent months, most recently near Lyon in the east, where a mare that had died of natural causes was discovered Monday with its nose, an ear and an eye removed.
Last week, in the Jura region also in the east, a horse was stunned before having an eye gouged out and a piece of bone removed, according to local radio. It later died.
"We invite you to report any suspicious individual or behaviour noted in the vicinity of horse pastures, stud farms, livestock farms or equestrian centres," the police of Lons-le-Saunier in the Jura region said on Facebook Monday.
Police in Roanne near Lyon, where the most recent case was discovered, told AFP they had linked the latest horse mutilation to "about 15 other mysterious acts of torture and mutilations of live horses around France these last weeks." Ponies and donkeys were also targeted.
"Is this a challenge on the internet? The impulse of an individual? All avenues are being investigated," Bruno Wallart of the police in Riom in the Puy-de-Dome region of central France, where several horses have reportedly been mutilated, said in June.
Local investigations are backed by the Central Office on the Fight against Threats to Environmental and Public Health of the French national police.
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