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"It's going to go on a manhunt, that's the risk". Élisa has only one fear: that the quiet countryside of Trégor where she lives will take on a far-west feel. "We are on edge," she said, after a horse was found slaughtered in a field and others mutilated between Lannion, Guingamp and Morlaix. In a few hours, last week, a climate of psychosis settled in this sector of the Côtes d'Armor where the inhabitants are organizing to track down the perpetrator (s). Because the resentment of Élisa, they are nearly 1,200 to share it on a Facebook group created especially just after this series of attacks.
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About ten equines killed or mutilated since the start of the year
Another Facebook group, which has more than 7,000 members (including 4,000 registered last week) called "Justice for our horses", lists all the cases in France: since the beginning of the year, at least ten equines have been killed or mutilated in several metropolitan departments. In the Trégor, the members are getting organized. They are therefore 1,200 to take turns every night to patrol. "The patrols are organized in different sectors and we observe. Our goal is to identify individuals, raise license plates and alert the gendarmerie", explains Élisa, while warning: "We are not here to play cowboys ".
"I heard that if they had arrived at the right time, they would have done justice to themselves."
But it is better to avoid going for a night stroll in the surroundings at this time, because if a charter of good conduct has been posted on the social network to remind that all violence is prohibited, some openly say they are ready to be freed from it: authorities are concerned. "I heard that if they had arrived at the right time, they would have done justice to themselves," explains the mayor of Plouzélambre at the microphone of Europe 1. Since a horse was found dead in his town, André Coënt clearly perceives this feeling of revenge.
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Faced with these outbursts of radicalism, he warns: "These people, who walk in nature at night, must not intervene, because it could be very dangerous for them. And on the other hand, above all, that they are not armed, it is out of the law ". The elected member concluded by recalling that all these rounds could complicate the work of investigators who, for the moment, have not established "any common thread" between the various cases.