'Bizarre Murder' Suspect Released Without Charges in France for Dismemberment of Over 30 Horses

Bizarre Crimes Targeting Words Only, Total 153 Cases This Year
Including Mutilation and Murder of Body Parts

On July 9th, a horse wounded by a bladed weapon was seen collapsing in the Normandy region of northern France. / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Juhyung] A man arrested in France on suspicion of mutilating the bodies of dozens of horses was released without charges after one day.

According to local French media such as Le Parisien, on the 8th (local time), French police released a man in his 50s who had been arrested the previous day (7th) in the town of Orain in the Alsace region of northeastern France.

The police arrested him after receiving a report that he resembled the suspect in a distributed composite sketch, but after checking his mobile phone communication records, they determined he was unrelated to the case.

Earlier, the police had arrested the man on suspicion of injuring two horses and stabbing the farm owner with a weapon at a ranch in the Yonne department of the Bourgogne region in east-central France between the 24th and the morning of the 25th of last month.

At the time, the farm owner testified that there were two people at the crime scene and provided the police with a composite sketch of one of them.

Meanwhile, across France, a series of brutal crimes targeting horses have continued over the past few months. According to G?rald Darmanin, the French Minister of the Interior, a total of 153 related cases have been reported so far, with more than 30 horses having had body parts mutilated or having died.

Julien Denormandie, the French Minister of Agriculture, who visited the crime scenes, stated, "All national institutions are moving to uphold justice," and emphasized, "Those responsible will be brought to trial."

Serge Lecomte, president of the French Equestrian Federation, who visited the site with Minister Denormandie, criticized the acts as "cruel and barbaric crimes never seen before," adding, "Cruelly treating animals is a precursor to cruelly treating humans."

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