A small 50 square metre council flat has turned out to be a slaughterhouse. In the southern French city of Nice, 40 sheep were found in the flat. The sheep were apparently about to be illegally slaughtered in view of the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice that begins today.
40 sheep have been discovered in an otherwise empty council flat in Nice in the south of France. The animals had been crammed into a 50-square-metre flat lined with straw, the broadcaster France 3 reported on Tuesday. Two men wearing blood-stained T-shirts were arrested.
French authorities suspect that the sheep were to have been illegally slaughtered for the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, as police came across a sheep in the flat that had already been slaughtered. The other sheep were handed over to a breeder.
To prevent illegal use of the vacant flat, the housing association had installed a security door. During an inspection on Friday, the flat was still empty. On Sunday, however, the police came across the sheep during an inspection of the block of flats.
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