"The owner saw lamps in his meadow" and warned the gendarmes, who are looking for two men, still on the run.
A horse was injured in the flank.
An important gendarmerie device was deployed overnight from Saturday to Sunday in Côte-d'Or after a horse owner reported an intrusion into his meadow where a horse was injured, sources learned. concordant.
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Around 2 am in Losne, "the owner saw lamps in his meadow" and warned the gendarmes who sent 40 men into the field, supported by a helicopter, as well as a dog team, told AFP the Côte-d'Or gendarmerie.
"A horse was injured in the flank. A not very deep wound according to the veterinary examination," said the Dijon prosecutor's office to AFP.
"Two men are wanted"
"Two men are wanted," added the gendarmerie, which has set up a road control system with neighboring departments.
The Beaune research brigade and the Dijon research section went there as well as the regional command.
With the proliferation of acts of mutilation of horses throughout France, the subject has become sensitive.
Instructions were given to equine owners "to call the police and not to intervene themselves", according to the gendarmes.
The Val-d'Oise, in the Paris region, recorded its first cases on Saturday: two mares, who did not die, one with a cut in the vulva and the other a cut of 30 centimeters on the side.
They were parked in the same meadow in Grisy-les-Plâtres, a small rural town in Vexin.
In addition, Isère had its first case in Bonnefamille on August 30 with a ponette incised 20 cm under the left ear and two cuts on the posterior.