“I have never seen a farmer so irreducible, and so impervious to warnings”. The public prosecutor, Thomas Matthieu-Jean does not have words strong enough to describe the behavior of this breeder, based in Luitré-Dompierre, near Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine). This Monday, December 9, 2024, the 43-year-old man was tried by the criminal court of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), for mistreatment inflicted on his cattle. Offenses for which he had already been sanctioned on multiple occasions.
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Advanced undernutrition
On September 14, 2023, the veterinary services went to the defendant's farm, and noted multiple acts of mistreatment, committed on September 13 and 14, on his thirteen heifers and three calves. Among them: the fact that three cattle over seven months old are installed in individual kennels unsuitable for their size, that two heifers are permanently attached, that two calves aged one month are in…
