Finistère: a dolphin found in a trash can, the result of the investigation is shocking

He reserves a sad fate for this dolphin freshly washed up on the beach. After skinning it and cutting it up to eat it, he threw away the remains of the unhappy dolphin in the trash cans. With the Quimper public prosecutor’s office and the gendarmerie, BFM TV has learned that the author of this abominable act is a retired fisherman from Douarnenez, in Finistère. The septuagenarian, a retired fisherman born in 1947, was heard on Thursday May 4, 2023 by agents from the French Office for Biodiversity, aftera garbage can containing a butchered dolphin has been discovered.

It’s long Sea Shepherd who had revealed the discovery of this trash can containing the corpse of a dolphin butchered. THE septuagenarian investigated did not deny the facts and provided the investigators with the reasons why he mutilated the marine mammal. According to him, he had discovered the dolphin freshly stranded. He picked it up and cut up to eat. He then threw the remains of the animal in the trash.

Eating dolphin is strictly prohibited

The septuagenarian fisherman born in 1947 was heard on May 4, but the body of the dolphin was discovered on Monday, May 1, we learn. Specifically, he had “was found in a garbage can on rue Jean d’Arc in Tréboul“. The association Sea Shepherd France published a animal picture taken by a resident on social networks. The association also announced thatshe was going to file a complaint For “mutilation of protected species“. In the horrible photo, we can see that the top of the animal has been removed. In the post of the association for the protection of marine animals, we can read: “the way he was butchered leaves no doubt that his flesh was consumed which is strictly prohibited“.