The department of Creuse was affected for the first time by the wave of mutilations which hit horses since the spring and feeds the psychosis of breeders.
According to France Bleu, a dead horse was found last week in Azerables, in the north-west of the department.
His body showed injuries that the autopsy attributed to the man.
The medical examiner found a hematoma in the throat of the horse, aged 22, another in the forehead.
The animal also presented mutilations: a cut ear, a punctured eye and a cut on the genitals.
Out of 500 cases, only 84 attributable to humans
In October, the mutilation of a horse in the town of Bétête had caused great emotion, in tune with that which has been expressed for months.
The equine had actually died naturally, and a wild animal had gouged out its ear post-mortem.
This year 2020 will have been marked by the discovery of many horses, mares, foals and ponies injured, mutilated, amputated or killed in troubled circumstances and for an incomprehensible reason.
Of the 500 investigations launched by a special gendarmerie cell, only 84 are continuing for acts attributable to man.
For others, it is especially wild animals that are to blame.
On December 11, Lieutenant-Colonel Marie-Béatrice Tonanny, coordinator of the national operation to fight against animal mutilation, explained in our columns that it was "impossible to identify one hypothesis more than another or one. precise mobile ”.
And the military recognized that there were several authors, probably galvanized by the media coverage of these cases.
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