VIDEO. After four months of infiltration in a slaughterhouse, he tells

Abused animals that go 48 hours without eating … Thomas SaIdi is an L214 investigator and for four months, he infiltrated a slaughterhouse pretending to be an employee. “I discovered several rather disturbing things.” L214 chose this slaughterhouse in particular because the association had received several alerts about animal protection. “The first day of work, I arrive in the slaughterhouse parking lot and I hear the cries of the animals, the cries of the cows, and I immediately understand that I was not in the wrong place“, he recalls. As a veterinary officer, Thomas was assigned to two positions:”the first was the control of carcasses and offal, and the second was the inspection of ritual slaughter, so check that the slaughter of animals is taking place in accordance with the regulations“, he explains.

Over time, Thomas finds that these regulations are not respected: “Animals arrive injured, for example with leg fractures, and these animals can stay on site for 10 hours before being slaughtered, while regulations require that animals arriving injured, which cannot move, be slaughtered as quickly as possible“During his infiltration, Thomas found that the failures of the veterinary services were partly due to a lack of training.”Me, I was given some explanations on the job, in the field, for a week or two, with sometimes contradictory information“, he says.

At the end of the investigation, the L214 association decided to file a complaint against Bigard and against the State and, at the same time, to launch a petition calling for the prohibition of slaughter without stunning and the ban on transport of pregnant cows.