The corpse of a mutilated mare discovered in Haute-Vienne

A mutilated mare was discovered dead Thursday morning in Haute-Vienne.

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The list of mutilated horses is growing.

An investigation for "act of cruelty to animals X" was opened by the prosecution of Limoges (Haute-Vienne) after the discovery this Thursday morning in Arnac-la-Poste of the corpse of a mutilated mare.

The animal was mutilated in the ears, eyes and hindquarters during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, explained Baptiste Porcher, prosecutor of the Republic of Limoges.

A national survey

The research brigade and the research section of the gendarmerie were seized and are working in conjunction with the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie to "verify whether connections exist with other cases of this type at the national level", he added. also indicated the representative of the prosecution.

In recent months, mutilations of horses have occurred in around twenty departments in France.

A mare was thus discovered on Thursday with its tail severed and its vulva cut off in Val-Revermont, in Ain.

She survived her injuries.

The long list of mutilations of equines constitutes a challenge for the investigators because these acts are the fact of several authors acting according to different modus operandi, according to the gendarmes.

An official of the sub-directorate of the judicial police of the gendarmerie explained to AFP on Wednesday that “about twenty cases of cut ears, but (...) also other facts, organ mutilations genitals, lacerations with sharp objects ”.

The motivations of the authors remain mysterious at this stage.

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