Gérard Tardy, 84, is being prosecuted for complicity in three offences: “willful attack on the life of domestic or tamed animals”, “slaughtering outside a slaughterhouse under illicit conditions” and “killing animals without precaution to prevent them from suffering, ”said the public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne.
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”.
Several civil party associations
The cemetery of Lorette, a town of 4,800 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 commune 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 filed civil suits for the trial, specifies the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office.
