A polecat and a rat killed by traps: hearing on 2 April in Lorient!
A few months ago, in a small town in Morbihan, the lifeless body of a polecat and a rat were found inside cages out in the countryside. Having been abandoned there, these two animals had died of hunger and thirst. A case which once again shows (is there still any need…?) the cruelty of these traps and those who set them. Thanks to our complaint, the person responsible was identified and will be ruled on at the Lorient legal tribunal on 2 April 2024 at 9am.
Shut inside a cage, dead from hunger and thirst: these two animals’ ordeals
In April 2023, walkers came across, out in the countryside, the corpses of a polecat and a rat shut inside a cage. These animals had lived through a real ordeal, dead from hunger and thirst, prisoners of these traps for several days.
Following our complaint, the investigation quickly allowed the person responsible to be identified. Because, as well as being cruel, this practice is illegal: polecats, after having been killed and trapped for years, are now considered as ‘near threatened’ by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), to the point where the State Council, referred to by associations, took them off the list of ‘species likely to cause damage’…
Traps: torture instruments that litter the ground in the countryside
The least we can say is that hunters/trappers are not lacking when it comes to the vilest of imaginations. Cages, foot snare traps, killing traps: the worst atrocities are allowed when it comes to killing those belonging to a species classified as ‘likely to cause damage’ –a decree which we attacked.
Animals are taken every day in these torture instruments that are supposed to be ‘selective’, but which mutilate all those who cross their paths. After Cooper and Mani, recently, it was Red Collar who had to have her leg amputated after falling victim to a device with metal clamps.
We will be at the Lorient legal tribunal on 2 April to demand justice for these animals. While waiting, sign our petition for a radical reform on hunting!