The department of Ain recorded its first case of a mutilated horse, a mare in this case.

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  • A first case of a mutilated horse was recorded in the department of Ain.

  • One mare had her tail and vulva severed.

  • These same acts of animal cruelty were carried out in about twenty French departments.

A mare was discovered with a severed tail and cut vulva in Val-Revermont, in Ain, adding to the long list of horse mutilations in France in recent months, we learned Thursday from the gendarmes.

"It was the owner of the animal who found the facts on Tuesday and notified us the next day," the Bourg-en-Bresse gendarmerie, which is in charge of the investigation, told AFP, confirming thus information from BFMTV.

"The mare was in a large, very isolated field near the place called Cuisiat".

Vulva severed, tail severed

The mutilated equine survived her injuries, and another mare in the same meadow was found unharmed.

The end of the mutilated animal's tail was severed and its vulva had several cuts, incompatible with accidental injuries, concluded the veterinarian called by the owner, added the same source.

This is the first time that a horse has been mutilated in this way in Ain, according to the gendarmerie.

There had been a suspicion on August 28 at a place called Attignat, with a horse injured in the side, but without being able to conclude that a third party had intervened.

Mutilation in about twenty departments

These mutilations of horses which have occurred in around twenty departments constitute a challenge for the investigators, these acts being the act of several authors acting according to different operating methods.

Among the latest to date, a Breton draft mare was thus the victim of serious mutilation (genitalia cut, ear cut off) and killed, in a meadow adjacent to dwellings, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, in Saint-Tugdual (Morbihan ).

There are "about twenty cases of cut ears, but there are also mutilations of genitals, lacerations with sharp objects," Colonel Hubert Percie du Sert, coordinator of the sub -direction of the judicial police of the gendarmerie.

Challenge?

Satanism?

Everything is considered

Horse owners are encouraged to equip themselves with “hunting cameras”, to visit their animals more often in the meadows, to remove their halter and to report all facts to the gendarmes.

Regarding the motivations of the authors, everything is considered: challenge launched on the Internet, sectarian aberrations, mimicry, hatred of equines, satanic rites ... La Miviludes, in charge of the observation and analysis of the sectarian phenomenon, and which provides its support , did not reveal a satanic rite.

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