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The Civil Guard has denounced 83 people in a meeting of 120 organized in El Palmar de Troya (Seville) in which they bet on clandestine cockfights.

In a note, the Civil Guard reports that, after different efforts, the investigators located the exact place where the clandestine cockfight was taking place on rustic land in the municipality of Seville.

Once the Civil Guard arrived at the scene, they surprised a crowd of more than 120 people, all of them gathered around a gangster made for this purpose, under an awning tent, who, when surprised, began to flee. The attendees of the meeting were huddled around the ring or fighting place of the animals, without keeping the most basic safety distance or using hygienic means (masks or gloves).

After a few moments of tension and once the situation was normalized, for which it had the support of several units of agents, the Civil Guard identified 83 people, most of them with a police record for crime and drugs .

After the eye inspection, the agents observed that in a garage there were metal cages and wooden boxes with roosters, which were going to be used in the following combats, as well as seven dead roosters , with evident signs of having died during the fight. In principle, the dead animals lack identification marks, making it difficult at this time to know the identity of the owners, so an eye and photographic inspection is being carried out for further investigation.

Regardless of the cockfight, the place used for this activity had an infrastructure, such as barbecues, rows of joined tables, with food and drink .

For all this, the Civil Guard has proceeded to denounce the people identified for non-compliance with the measures established in the declaration of the state of alarm, for violations of law 2/86 and concordant decree on gambling and betting in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. .

In addition, it investigates for crimes of animal abuse by the death of the roosters during the fight between them, the owner of the farm as organizer of the event, and analyzes to clarify the owners of the dead animals. Likewise, the Civil Guard carries out a study of the origins of some of the roosters in case they had been robbed.

Spanish fighter cock

The avian species of 'Spanish fighting cock' is a highly prized variety of cock, its breeding and animal registration being regulated by the community. Some specimens reach a high market price for their purity, the thefts of this type of animals being quite frequent on farms in the province of Seville, so there is the possibility that some of these animals could have been stolen.

The ultimate goal of the clanging of these clandestine fights is money bets , with large amounts of cash. Some of the denounced, carried amounts greater than 5,000 and 6,000 euros as well as several annotations that reflect betting data. The money that could move the bets in view of the amounts in cash that the identified ones carried, would exceed 40,000 euros .

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