A 35-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday by the Strasbourg Criminal Court to four months in prison for having "
butchered and beheaded
" a live calf, AFP learned from corroborating sources.
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This man "
who had butchered and beheaded
" the animal "
in his garage
" last August was sentenced to 4 months "
with a definitive ban on keeping an animal
", the national police of Bas- indicated on Twitter. Rhine. He will also have to pay "
the sum of 300EUR in damages
" to the seven associations for the defense of animals which had brought civil parties, among which the association Stéphane Lamart, said the latter in a press release.
The facts took place on August 27, in the district of Elsau, south-west of Strasbourg. The police had received several calls of howling animals came from a garage. On the spot, the police had found "
a calf, dying and partially decapitated, the four severed limbs and an individual harnessed to skin the beast,
" police said in a statement.
"
The blood of this poor animal was pouring into the network of sewage pipes
," said the Stéphane Lamart association in its press release.
Arrested, the author had "
none of the qualifications required for the slaughter of an animal
" and the calf, which died of his wounds, had not been legally transferred.
According to the Stéphane Lamart association, "
he had obtained it illegally
" on the leboncoin.fr site.