The police are investigating a possible case of animal cruelty in Ottendorf-Okrilla (Bautzen district).
As the police department in Görlitz announced on Wednesday, witnesses had already found a mare with cuts on the neck on October 6th in a paddock in the district of Grünberg - a wound ten centimeters long and five centimeters deep.
Ottendorf-Okrilla - At the time of the crime, the horse was with five other horses in a paddock about two hectares in size.
When asked, the police did not want to completely rule out that the mare could have been injured in other ways.
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