A ‘sick’ serial killer is stomping and stabbing domestic rabbits to death in a French village
- Seven rabbits were slaughtered at a home in the Brittany village of Minihy-Tréguier in the latest killings
- At least 10 rabbit keepers have been targeted since March by the killer, whose gruesome activities have terrified residents
A serial rabbit-killer who has been spreading terror around a picturesque village in Brittany has struck again.
Police were called after the bodies of seven domestic rabbits were discovered slaughtered and dumped on the ground at a home in the village of Minihy-Tréguier on the Côtes-d’Armor coast on Saturday morning.
Shocked locals had hoped the killings, which reportedly began in March, had stopped after several weeks passed without any animals being killed.
Officers say the mystery killer leaves few if any clues but has the same modus operandi each time: he or she sneaks into private gardens at night, takes the rabbits from their hutches and either stabs them with a needle or sharp object or crushes them underfoot. The bodies are then left on the ground.
“It’s frightening. If they can attack defenceless animals like rabbits, they could very well, one day, attack people, particularly the elderly,” Annick, a villager, told the Le Télégramme newspaper.
A neighbour, Isabelle, added: “You have to be sick to do something like this to animals. I mean, it’s not even to eat them.”
