A preliminary investigation was opened on Wednesday, September 11 in Saint-Brieuc following a complaint from the L214 association. “for animal abuse” targeting a pig farm in Côtes d’Armor, we learned from the prosecution. In a press release, the animal rights association revealed images filmed, according to it, in the premises of a pig farm in Saint-Carreuc and showing “animals that are neither cared for nor rescued”. “Piglets are slammed to death and can agonize for long minutes, and corpses are left among the living animals. Pigs are raised without access to the outdoors in unsanitary buildings.”details L214.
The Departmental Directorate for the Protection of Populations (DDPP) and the Saint-Brieuc gendarmerie company were jointly tasked with the investigation, the Saint-Brieuc public prosecutor, Nicolas Heitz, told AFP. Contacted by AFP, the prefecture did not wish to comment. According to L214, which is campaigning for the eventual cessation of breeding, the animals on this farm “are slaughtered at the E.Leclerc slaughterhouse in Le Mené (22), which supplies E.Leclerc supermarkets for its Repère brand and the butchers in its stores”.
