Extreme thinness, no water available and catastrophic dentition: 20 abused equines were seized in borinage

Skeletal animals

The extreme thinness of equines strikes the speakers. Some are so weak that they chance, leaving their box. Even the robust shetlands ponies are reduced to the skeleton state, aggravated by serious dental problems. A white ponette, particularly emaciated, is struggling to move.

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Under police supervision, horses and ponies are evacuated one by one to the vehicles of shelters, without resistance, too weakened to defend themselves. Distributed among the participating structures, they immediately receive veterinary care, close monitoring and progressive realities.

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Jean-Marc Montegnies, president of animals in danger, denounces: “It is inconceivable that people can consider getting on the back of these animals while they are weakened to the point of struggling to stand up. It is an unbearable mistreatment that we denounce with force. “

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Expected judicial consequences

The Minister-President Wallon Adrien Dolimont has two months to rule on the final placement of animals in shelters.

The owner faces, depending on the severity of the facts selected, up to three years in prison and/or a maximum fine of 1 million euros.

The operation took place in a stable which usually offers equines for equines as well as children’s riding courses.

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