His ride had ended after CCTV cameras had been installed in front of the boxes of the equestrian center.
A 46-year-old man was tried on Wednesday in Angers for zoophilic acts committed on horses, in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou (Maine-et-Loire), between 2020 and 2022. This father had been surprised during at night with a construction plot and passing from box to box, reports
Le Courrier de l'Ouest
.
The manager of this club, who described stressed and injured animals, had filed a complaint.
The defendant, who denied these acts during the hearing, had already received a two-month suspended prison sentence for sexual abuse of the same kind, in the same center.
The court this time sentenced him to a suspended six-month prison sentence, reports
Le Courrier de l'Ouest
.
He will be prohibited from owning an animal, from going to the equestrian center and will have to pay around 18,000 euros to the civil parties.
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