Five horses died and ten are seriously injured.
The investigation is advancing in the hair mutilation case in Normandy. A suspect was arrested and placed in police custody this Monday, August 4. This young man in his twenties is suspected of having killed five horses and to have seriously injured ten others in recent months in the Le Havre region and from Yvetot in Normandy. The attacks are spread out from early May to the end of July. Drawn eyes, lacerated body, fractured or crushed bones, injuries required the use of bruising objects according to investigators.
Man has been identified thanks to Son DNAhis blood was found on one of his victims, said Cauchois mail. In his car and at home many objects with blood, clawing key, cutter, roller, massage but also stained clothes. Investigators also discover a monocular to see at night and treats for horses. His profile was detailed at a press conference held this Thursday by Soizic Guillaume La Prosecuor de la République and he is disturbing to say the least.
Presented as well inserted, the suspect does not practice horse riding but his girlfriend is the owner of horses. He also recognizes two assaults, one of which is against her horse, but disputes the others. He said “have obeyed impulses“, said the prosecutor. Her girlfriend explained that there was no particular conflict between them. She confides, however, that her companion has Bikersfacts already known to justice. A second psychiatric expertise has been requested.
He is prosecuted for “Exercise of serious abuse or commission of an act of cruelty towards a domestic animal” as well as “Port and transport of category D weapons”. He was placed in pre -trial detention on Wednesday August 6 while waiting for his judgment on September 26.