The employee of a pig farm in Yonne was sentenced Thursday to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros for "bad treatment of an animal" The employee had been denounced by a whistleblower, supported by L214, who had notably mentioned "blows with screwdrivers, iron bars, sledgehammers" against the pigs. He also brought to light the agony, on February 16, 2021, of a sow “beaten with a sledgehammer” and who was left dying all night before being killed with a gun the next day.
The practice of “slamming” has been prohibited since January 2022. The public prosecutor, however, limited himself to the abuse imposed on the sow. His killing “is extremely shocking”, admitted the prosecutor, believing that it was not necessary to “put an entire sector on trial” The court followed this logic and condemned neither the breeding nor its managers. The association had filed a complaint against the breeder.