Question 1282 — overseas

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Ms. Béatrice Roullaud draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry to acts of animal torture committed by organized gangs on the islands of Reunion and Mayotte. Indeed, it is with absolute horror that the practices of rare cruelty carried out by young people, often minors, on stray or stolen dogs are observed and denounced: after having "stored" them in squats or camps hidden in the forest, they chain them or put them in cages and then carry out the worst abuses: strangulation, burning, disembowelment, mutilation, enucleation, decapitation, etc. This scourge which has affected the islands of Reunion and Mayotte since 2015 has recently increased: for example, in two years, more than 1,000 reports of mistreatment, or nearly 10 per week, have been received by the association. Reunion Island APEBA (Association for Education in Animal Benevolence) which saved 150 animals from squats and wild storage. However, the animal protection associations of Reunion and Mahor, which are on the front line facing the atrocities discovered every day on the ground, feel particularly abandoned and helpless because they have no financial support to collect and care for tortured animals, and cannot fight alone against the crimes of these extremely violent gangs and complain of a lack of criminal prosecutions. While the animal has been a “living being endowed with sensitivity” since 2015 (article 515-14 of the civil code), political inaction in the face of this alarming situation is difficult to understand. Without massive involvement of public authorities and local authorities to reestablish the rule of law, dogs and cats will continue to be massacred with impunity in the overseas departments. There is indeed cause for alarm, knowing that 98% of studies on the subject establish a link between acts of cruelty committed against animals and aggressive behavior towards humans. “The death of human empathy is one of the first and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of descending into barbarism” (Hannah Arendt). She asks him Consequently, what measures does the Government intend to take to stem this scandal of animal torture through actions which must be carried out both in the fields of education and that of repression.

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