The mystery hovers around a number of deaths unexplained of horses, identified in different departments of France. Several preliminary investigations have been opened at the end of June last in the Somme, and Puy-de-Dome. And as reported by Le Parisien, the number of cases, worn for at least eleven since December 1, 2018, seems to increase at the beginning of the year 2020, with two additional victims in recent weeks in Seine-Maritime.

The common point of these killings : the mutilation. In the majority of cases, the horses found dead in particular have had their right ear cut off. In a note dating from June 30, including our colleagues from Paris have been made aware, by the central intelligence territorial (LSVCC) points to " a real willingness to harm the horses in general while keeping an ear trophy ". The reasons for these actions disease are still unknown. "Questions have been raised about their authors and their real intentions : superstition, fetishism, ritual, satanic, sectarian, or other" asks the LSVCC. "This is a challenge launched on the Internet ? A challenge ? The pulse of an individual ? All tracks are considered ", had indicated on his side in June, Agence France-Presse Bruno Wallart, company commander of gendarmerie of Riom, in the Puy-de-Dome.

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A gang of killers ?

The track of a gang of killers seems to be currently preferred. Interviewed by Le Parisien, Loïc Crampon, which was found the 19th of June his ass to death with the severed ear and an eye ripped off, explains that these individuals " must be well-informed ". "Few people know how to handle equines. "In his note, the LSVCC abounds :" The traces observed on the nostrils that suggest the use of a bent-nose, accessory requesting the user's knowledge and skills in the horse world to handle it with efficiency. "

in Addition to in the Sum and in the Puy-de-Dome, where investigations have been opened, other cases have been identified in particular in the Aisne, in the Vendée, in france, in the Loire valley and the Lot, according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Clermont-Ferrand. "We are in contact with the other floors to try to establish connections and possibly gather the surveys, but for the moment this is not the case," he said on the 30th June last. "There is a sensitivity to strong around the suffering of animals. We [the justice] in any case, we give the means. One treats it in a very serious way, just for the moment, we do not track, " was the view of his side to the Agence France-Presse the prosecutor of Amiens.

For Pauline Sarrazin, whose mare was attacked on the 6th of June last, there are about twenty case everywhere in France since 2014. In Paris, she calls the owners of equidae to the vigilance and established a group on Facebook, " Justice for our horses ", to bring together the victims. "The problem is that it's never the same type of equine animal referred to and never in the same way to kill. The only link, it is the ear [...] So it can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime. "

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