A shocking case has emerged from the beautiful town of Oberneufnach in Bavaria, which involved a 52-year-old Turkish asylum seeker allegedly breaking into a stable and sexually abusing ponies.
The man, who is from a refugee shelter in the nearby town of Anhofen, was arrested after he was caught on surveillance video.
The man broke into the horse farm at 6:45 p.m. while the family was having dinner. They heard the dog barking and then looked on surveillance monitors, where they saw the man in the stable with his pants down on top of one of the animals.
The boyfriend then ran to the stables to chase down the man, but he had already fled the scene. He continued his pursuit of the suspect though and eventually caught him. Police arrived and placed the man under arrest.
“He climbed over a fence and ran towards the center of the village,” the woman told Bild. A veterinarian was called to examine the animals.
Once the video footage was reviewed, it showed the man had sexually abused multiple female ponies in the course of 25 minutes. Several of the ponies suffered physical injuries, including one that collapsed to the ground.
She also said that the migrant “abused several ponies routinely.” Police say that despite the perpetrator knowing the cameras were installed, he was not deterred.
Police are investigating the man with charges of trespassing and violating the Animal Welfare Act, but the man was not placed in detention. Only his personal details were recorded.
According to Bild, people are fearful over the fact that the man is still on the loose.
“On Saturday the man was wandering through our village again. I’m scared. Especially for children and animals. Because the police say: ‘That’s not enough for prison or deportation.’” said the woman.
As Remix News has reported in the past, ponies and horses have been targeted in other attacks.
In 2023, police sought a suspect after he was caught on a surveillance camera raping a pony at a stable south of Harburg. The 18-year-old pony, which is named “Carrie,” was abused by the man at 1 a.m., with footage showing the man calmly walking onto the property and starting to attack the defenseless animal.
In 2017, a Syrian migrant raped a pony in broad daylight at Berlin’s Görlitzer Park’s petting zoo.
“My babysitter was out with our son in Görlitzer Park. They witnessed the man sexually assault the pony,” one woman told Berliner Morgenpost at the time. The babysitter took a photo of the man as he raped the pony and provided it to police. The migrant was banned from the petting zoo in response, but it is unclear if he was ever charged by police.