Nine animals were killed on Sunday. This herd of wild goats was accused of eating the flowers placed on the graves in the cemetery of Lorette.
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Goat hunting. Nine wandering animals were killed on Sunday, December 19, during a hunt organized by a commune in the Loire, in an attempt to put an end to the damage committed by a wild herd, for several weeks, in the city cemetery. “The nine killed animals, of which I noticed that only one was ringed, were all eating the flowering of the graves, when the hunters intervened at daybreak”, told AFP the mayor of Lorette, Gérard Tardy.
Last weekend a goat and “a goat weighing 80 kilos” had already been slaughtered by members of the local hunting society in the cemetery, whose users complain of having to regularly replace the flowers and plants that adorn the graves. The herd, which lives on a nearby hill, has no known owner.
The Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) of the Lyon region is opposed to these beatings. “We could have found another solution by calling on a shepherd with his dog to direct the animals in a direction where they could be captured, if necessary using a hypodermic rifle”, judge Sébastien Grève, head of the abuse investigation service at the SPA. The prefecture of the Loire indicates for its part that the administration is in the process of “check the regularity of the operation”.
The mayor of Lorette has given notice to the company SFR (Altice group), owner of the steep land where goats take refuge once they are satisfied, to install at his expense “an aesthetic and very resistant fence” and to take charge of the damage observed in the cemetery. Contacted by AFP, Cyrille-Frantz Honegger, director of Altice Center-Est, confirmed that the land belonged to Hivory, the company that manages SFR’s branches, adding that its services “will check access to the site”.