Complaint on behalf of mistreated horses: One Voice defends Casimir and Gazelle in court
In September 2023, the manager of an equestrian center in the Manche region was filmed violently beating two horses. For Casimir and Gazelle, we filed a complaint as soon as we became aware of these unbelievably brutal acts, asking that they be confiscated from their torturer and entrusted to us, and that he be banned from practicing. On November 19, at 8:30 am, we will represent them as plaintiff at the Coutances legal tribunal.
In September 2023, Casimir and Gazelle were subjected to a veritable relentless assault at a Normandy riding school. While they were tied to a wall to be trimmed, the manager of the center attacked them, hitting the former on the head with a farrier’s rasp and raining pincers down on the latter’s rump. The two animals, completely distraught, tried to flee their torturer, desperately pulling on the rope by which they were held, to no avail. Like Happy before them, they had no way of escaping this outburst of violence. The video of the event did not go unnoticed. Following its publication on social networks, the gendarmerie opened an investigation.
Training as a pretext for the worst kind of violence
As for the person responsible for these acts, he claims that all he did was to “pull back into line” uncooperative, even dangerous horses, to avoid any risk of accident. In the media, it’s the same old story: his brother tells us that “you can’t train a horse (or any other animal) without being firm sometimes”. It’s a speech reminiscent of the justifications given by the pony club manager who hit Happy. Maltreatment under the guise of education, then. And people for whom it’s obviously easier to brutalize and traumatize the equines in their care than to try and understand the reasons for their malaise.
Casimir and Gazelle must be kept safe
It is unthinkable that someone capable of beating animals up, and finding it perfectly natural, should continue to work with them. To protect Casimir and Gazelle, we have filed a complaint against the stable manager who mistreated them, and demand that they be taken to safety. We are also demanding that the defendant no longer be allowed to work with animals.
On November 19, at 8:30 am, we will be at the Coutances legal tribunal as plaintiff. For Casimir, Gazelle and all the other horses and ponies, sign our petition to obtain pet status.