The mayor of Lorette (Loire) will be tried by the criminal court of Saint-Etienne next June for having slaughtered wandering goats which were damaging the graves in the cemetery of the city, we learned Thursday from the parquet floor of Saint -Etienne.
Gérard Tardy, 84, is being prosecuted for complicity in three offences: "
willful attack on the life of domestic or tamed animals
", "
slaughter outside a slaughterhouse under illicit conditions
" and "
killing of animals without precaution to prevent them from suffering
,” the public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz, told AFP.
Frequent degradations
The president of the Approved Hunting Association of Lorette, Marvin Chiaramonte, at the head of the group of hunters who carried out the slaughter of the 11 goats with a shotgun, will be tried on June 20.
He is also being prosecuted for "
non-delivery of dead animals to a rendering company
".
The cemetery of Lorette, a town of 4800 inhabitants, was regularly degraded by a herd of wild goats which fed on flowers and ornamental plants from the tombs.
In December 2021, residents had been asked on two consecutive Sundays by their mayor not to walk nearby.
The emotion caused by the radical method used by the first magistrate of the town had led several animal rights associations to organize an operation to rescue the goats and the surviving goat.
The Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) of Saint-Etienne, as well as the associations Anima and Le Cercle de Pan have joined as civil parties for the trial, specifies the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office.
