• A 55-year-old man is to be tried by the Lille Criminal Court for acts of cruelty to one of his cats.

  • According to the associations organized in civil parties, it is about zoophilia having caused serious injuries and the death of the animal.

  • The hearing was postponed at the request of the defendant to September 2023.

The little cat is dead.

This Thursday, GI, a resident of Haubourdin, near Lille, was to be tried by the criminal court for having inflicted "serious abuse or acts of cruelty" to one of his cats.

According to a source familiar with the matter, these are acts of zoophilia which seriously injured the animal, so much so that it died.

The 55-year-old defendant appeared free in court.

Graying hair dowdy in a mini ponytail that does not hide her baldness, eyes shifting behind small glasses, dilapidated surgical mask worn under the nose.

Summoned on November 17, GI waited until the day before his trial to secure the services of a lawyer.

The latter, ignoring the file, logically requested, and obtained, a postponement of the hearing to September 2023. "I have been living like a homeless person in a garage since August", pleads the defendant in a nasal voice.

The “entrails protruding ten centimeters”

August, precisely, it was during this month that the facts of which GI is accused took place. serious abuse or acts of cruelty to a domestic animal” with the aggravating circumstance that they were committed “by its owner or guardian”.

For Master Charlotte Bultel, lawyer for the Ani Meaux association, “it is a qualification of the facts which is undoubtedly more interesting criminally for the civil parties than zoophilia”, she assures.



The facts alleged against GI took place at the beginning of August 2022, and it is moreover himself who is involuntarily at the origin of his dismissal before the court.

According to a source close to the case, the defendant contacted veterinary emergencies on August 9 to report that his cat had a “disembowelment” and that his “entries had come out about ten centimeters”.

To his interlocutor who pressed him with questions, GI recognized facts of zoophilia, assures the association Stéphane Lamart, another civil party.

"Compatible with sexual abuse"

It was a third civil party association, Cause animal Nord, which was able to persuade the respondent to bring his cat, named "Permafrost", to a veterinary clinic near Lille.

"Uterine tear, vulvar dilation and vaginal prolapse", notes the veterinary report that

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was able to consult.

This same report concludes with “lesions which may be compatible with sexual abuse such as vaginal penetration.

“Despite the treatments, the late management of the animal, four days after the fact, and the severity of its injuries was fatal.

Complaints filed by two associations led to the opening of an investigation leading to a police raid in mid-August at GI There, in an unsanitary garden shed, 26 cats were found.

In the cellar of the house, the police discovered a dying cat which did not survive.

On the orders of the Lille public prosecutor's office, the animals were seized and their owner placed in police custody.

After the dismissal of the hearing on Tuesday, GI was placed under judicial supervision until September 7, the date set for his trial.

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  • Justice

  • Lille

  • Hauts-de-France

  • zoophilia

  • Animal cruelty

  • Animals

  • Court case