Marseilles
“It is a system of fraud which is based on the simple principle of making slaughterable horses prohibited for human consumption. (It) revolves around the concept of document fraud.”
In a few words, the prosecutor Jean-Yves Lourgouilloux summarizes this vast file judged in Marseille for almost three weeks.
An alleged fraud which is part of a series of three similar cases, investigated by the public health center of the court.
In one of them, an international traffic in horse meat between France and Belgium, prison sentences of up to two years have already been pronounced in mid-January.
In the trial before the court today, it is a question of the purchase and resale of equine animals prohibited for human consumption and which were slaughtered in France, Spain, Italy and Poland between 2011 and 2013. these horses that ended up on the stalls of dozens of horse butchers in the south of France, 185 came from a farm-laboratory…
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