"With hair, feathers or scales".
This is how Stéphane Lamart summarizes the list of animals to which the animal protection association that bears his name intervenes: all, without exception.
This former police officer who has made a name for himself in this environment after twenty years of activity is delighted to see the draft law against animal abuse arrive at the National Assembly.
What do you think of this text?
I am very supportive of it since we have contributed to the bill.
Proposals were taken up, in particular that of creating a file of people prohibited from keeping animals.
There was a breach there.
There are prohibitions on keeping an animal for three years, or permanently, but when these sentences are pronounced, if the person moves, takes back an animal, who will be able to verify that he has not been convicted of ill-treatment?
Nobody.
We therefore thought of this national file and contacted the National Commission for Information Technology and Freedoms (Cnil), the Ministers of Justice and the Interior.
Their responses had always been negative.
We hope that this proposal put forward by Loïc Dombreval will be definitively validated.
What remains to be done in France at this level?
We already have an important legal arsenal in France which protects animals very well.
But we always come back to the same thing: even if everything is done to defend animals in France, judges should be made aware of animal protection and animal rights.
The problem stems from there.
No matter how much more and more legal arsenal is put in place, the problem remains this sensitivity.
For the same facts, we can have two different decisions from one jurisdiction to another and this should not be the case.
We are also enrolled in the magistrate's school to train magistrates and allow them to come to us for internship in the legal service.
We are trying to educate the new generation in that way.
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How does the health situation change in relation to animal abuse?
From our point of view as an association, we have less abandonment, fewer animals to recover in pounds, wandering.
What is positive for the pet is that it sees its owners a lot more than before.
Everyone works eight hours a day, on average.
There, the Covid is good for animals because we spend more time with them.
But it is the after that must be thought about.
When we resume, I hope, a normal life, the animal will have to be gradually accustomed to being alone.
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Is the association less in demand?
No because we have interventions everywhere, all the time.
The last was in Brittany where sixteen cats and two dogs were abandoned in a house by a very depressed owner.
The prosecution gave us provisional custody of the animals.
We make seizures throughout France.
There we will have nine sheep to go and collect in the Orne.
We have cases of mistreatment with daily complaints.
We intervene as much for cats, dogs, sheep, birds or chickens ... With or without Covid, the association is mobilized every day to help mistreated animals.