Around thirty animals were recovered by animal protection associations.
The report on the emergency number of the CNPA (National Council for Animal Protection) to the Alès public prosecutor's office led to a rapid investigation by the Saint-Ambroix gendarmerie.
A trial in June 2025
On December 18, soldiers and municipal police officers went to a neighborhood on the edge of Cèze. They then note the presence of animals in serious health distress. Some are already dead and littering the ground on the property.
“There were corpses of cats, chickens, ducks…specifies Abdelkrim Grini, the public prosecutor of Alès. We also discovered numerous animals, dogs, cats, goats… left without care. The living conditions of these animals were deplorable. I asked the gendarmes to seize the hunting rifles discovered because these weapons would have been used to kill goats which would then have been fed to the dogs. The surviving animals were collected by various associations for treatment.”
The woman, a sixty-year-old, was briefly placed in police custody while her older companion was left free.
A couple recently settled in the village
The mayor of Saint-Ambroix, Jean-Pierre De Faria, is stunned by this situation: “This couple had just arrived in the village from Ardèche. It had been about a month since they had settled here with all their animals. Some neighbors quickly understood the health problem and alerted the emergency number of the 3677 SOS animal abuse.”
In the property, the greatest disorder reigns. Various objects are stored in the courtyard of the main building. During the Covid health crisis, the home was partially affected by the start of a fire linked to an electrical fault. Many cages scattered throughout the vast abandoned garden are still visible.
Around thirty animals recovered by associations
According to our colleagues atHere France Bleu Gardaround thirty animals were saved at the last minute. Animal protection associations reportedly recovered twelve goats, a goat, eight dogs, four cats, four sheep and three chickens.
The accused couple is summoned to the bar of the Alès judicial court in June 2025. Legal recidivism could be held against the sixty-year-old, already sentenced by the Nîmes court of appeal in 2022 for similar facts .
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