Sickening discovery of the Loire-Atlantique police in Saint-Herblain, in the suburbs of Nantes, Thursday April 1.
Two lambs and three sheep were dying at the end of a Roma camp being evicted from rue Julian Grimau, on the western edge of the city.
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Asked by
Le Figaro
, a policewoman said that the animals were found with their legs tied up by cables and "
their ears cut off, surely to recover their rings
".
Four skins of dead animals also littered the ground.
The surviving animals were handed over to the collective of looted breeders of Loire-Atlantique, who volunteered to take care of them.
The Loire-Atlantique National Police indicates that no arrest has taken place but that an investigation is underway to identify and find the culprits.
Roma had been sentenced last fall for "the
same facts
", specifies this police source.