The animal welfare foundation has announced the filing of a complaint, following the Twitter feed of a video showing a young man tearing the head of a live rooster.

The images provoked many indignant reactions on social networks. In a video relayed on Twitter, we see a man tearing the head of a live rooster with his teeth during a meal, before spitting it smiling.

Attention, these images show an act of cruelty towards an animal and can shock

Hasparren (64): Bixente Larralde, champion of Basque pelota tears the head of a rooster alive with teeth, the facts go back to June 2019. The Brigitte Bardot Foundation mandates his lawyer to file a complaint! Bleu_Basque @ @ @ SO_Paysbasque F3euskalherri @ ANTTONETXEBERRIpic.twitter.com / o5iGNtsEXb

- Daniel Raposo (@ DANIEL_R_64) August 9, 2019

Very quickly, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which works for the defense of animals, took the case, and announced a complaint. "I came across this video by chance on another social network, I managed to get it and identify the author of the facts," says Daniel Raposo, representative of the Foundation in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the columns of The Republic of the Pyrenees . According to the Foundation, the man on the video is Bixente Larralde, a Basque pelota champion. The video, which dates from June, was turned, according to Daniel Raposo, Hasparren, "after a championship pelota".

An offense punishable by 30,000 euros fine and two years in prison

The Brigitte Bardot Foundation will file a complaint for "act of cruelty" on an animal, an offense punishable by a fine of 30,000 euros and two years in prison. "I sent all the elements to Paris, to the legal service of the foundation, he seized our law firm who will file a complaint in the Basque Country shortly," said Daniel Raposo.

Joined by the local site Mediabask, Bixente Larralde did not wish to react. According to the site, however, he said he was "aware of his bad gesture", and that he "assumed his mistake".