A 35-year-old man was arrested in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) in the process of butchering a living calf in a garage, police said on Friday, August 27.
Last Tuesday, at the end of the afternoon, the police received several calls evoking animal howls from a garage in a district to the south-west of Strasbourg.
On the spot, the police found “a calf, dying, partially decapitated, the four severed limbs and an individual harnessed to skin the beast,” police said in a statement.
Arrested, the perpetrator was, at the end of his police custody, summoned to court on December 7. He had “none of the qualifications required for the slaughter of an animal” and the calf had not been legally transferred.
The animal died as a result of the mutilations suffered. The Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) filed a complaint.