The mutilations of horses that have occurred in about twenty departments in recent months constitute a real challenge because these acts are the fact of several authors according to different operating methods, underline Wednesday, September 2 the gendarmes.
«There are about twenty cases of severed ears, but there are also other facts, genital mutilation, lacerations with sharp objects.“, Explains to AFP Colonel Hubert Percie du Sert, coordinator of the sub-directorate of the judicial police of the gendarmerie, specifying”the plurality of authors and operating methods».
Thanks to a prevention and information campaign carried out among horse owners, he believes that the perpetuation of this type of facts will become “more complicated“. The owners are invited for example to equip themselves with “hunting cameras»To go more often to see their animals in the meadows, to take off their halter and to report all the facts to the gendarmes.
Challenge, sectarian aberrations, mimicry, satanic rites?
At the national level, the central office for the fight against environmental and public health attacks (OCLAESP) “coordinates“The follow-up of investigations to analyze the elements, explains the colonel. “All the procedural elements are gathered at the central criminal intelligence service», He adds. Regarding the motivations of the authors, everything is considered: a challenge on the internet, sectarian aberrations, mimicry, hatred of equines, satanic rites …
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La Miviludes, in charge of the observation and analysis of the sectarian phenomenon and which provides its assistance, did not highlight a satanic rite, but, adds the colonel, “this is not however ruled out“. Each of the facts gives rise to an in-depth study (observation by a veterinarian, necropsy, analyzes, etc.) in order to collect as many clues as possible.
A robot portrait was released last week by the gendarmerie, but warns Colonel Percie du Sert, if we “manages to identify it»That«will not mean that we will have solved the mystery». «This will only be a case», He insists.
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