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 2:00 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 gendarmerie of Côte-d'Or.
“
A horse was injured in the flank.
A not very deep wound according to the veterinary examination
”, specified the parquet floor of Dijon to AFP.
"
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.
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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.
