Herders began finding their animals with bound legs and obvious signs of sexual violence. This happened multiple times, prompting them to install motion-sensor cameras.<\/p>\n
The Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) of the French National Police quickly intervened and arrested the 19-year-old Afghan immigrant last week.<\/p>\n
The first complaints reached the police early this year. However, the attacks multiplied in February and March.<\/p>\n
The newspaper Le Figaro<\/em> reports that in many cases, female animals were found tied up with bloody genitals. Ouest-France<\/em> adds that a lamb attacked in February was found in critical condition.<\/p>\n The footage from the cameras was quite clear. Police were able to identify the perpetrator and arrest him without delay.<\/p>\n The Afghan immigrant appeared before the court this week. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison for animal abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 19-year-old Afghan migrant was detained near Marseille after repeated brutal attacks on livestock, with police acting on footage that captured the suspect amid rising animal abuse cases since early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[54,56,58,78,138,79],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afghan-migrant","tag-bac-police","tag-le-figaro","tag-massilia","tag-migrants-criminality","tag-ouest-france","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The cameras provided the evidence needed<\/h2>\n
What awaits the suspect in court<\/h2>\n