Investigators launched over 150 probes in French horse mutilations, killings spate

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Investigators launched over 150 probes in French horse mutilations, killings spate

 

Newly appointed French Agriculture and Food Minister Julien Denormandie arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

PARIS (Reuters) - Investigators have opened more than 150 probes into a spate of killings and mutilations of horses across France, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie said on Wednesday.

 

"We have an unacceptable situation of absolutely sickening cruelty acts," Denormandie told France Info radio.

 

"I hear the fear, the concerns, the disarray of horse owners," he said, adding that a toll free number was being made available to horse owners from Wednesday morning.

 

Horses have been found with ears cut off, eyes gouged out and genitals mutilated. Police say they have no idea why; theories include a satanic rite, macabre trophy hunt or internet challenge.

 

A 50-year-old jobless man arrested on Monday in eastern France as part of the investigation was released without charge, a police source said on Tuesday.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-09-09

 

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7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

Horses have been found with ears cut off, eyes gouged out and genitals mutilated.

what type of horses.... if racing horses look closer to the competition/betting mafia

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For reference from "The Observer" 4 July 2004 (UK):-

Riddle of the horse rippers

Investigators flummoxed over motive for the mutilation of ponies

In the run-up to the summer solstice, there were at least 12 attacks on horses in fields along the Derbyshire/Yorkshire border.

One horse had eight litres of blood drained from its stomach, while stones depicting five-pointed stars were found in the surrounding fields. Some of the animals had their tails removed, and others had their manes plaited in intricate patterns - signs of black magic practices.

Despite 24-hour surveillance, police caught no one. There had been similar attacks in Nottinghamshire at Hallowe'en the previous year, but no one was arrested.

According to records kept by the now defunct Metropolitan Police's equine crime prevention unit, between 1983 and 1993 more than 160 horses were attacked or mutilated in the UK.

 

 

Concern about the links between the occult and horse attacks has prompted the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to compile a list of attacks for Dr Richard Hoskins, an expert on witchcraft who advised police on the infamous 'torso in the Thames' investigation which examined the links between human sacrifice and black magic.

All those investigating the attacks, however, are cautious about overstating the links between horse ripping and the occult. 'There are all sorts of reasons why horses are being attacked. There are all sorts of people involved and all sorts of motives,' said Doreen Graham of the Scottish society.