(Brussels Times) Brussels police confiscated nine sheep meant to be sacrificed without stunning on unauthorised slaughter floors set up in Brussels for the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice, celebrated at the weekend.
Initial inspections carried out on Friday saw police seize two sheep in the municipality of Haren, after a local resident alerted them that they were going to be sacrificed in a neighbour’s garden.
Observed on Sunday, the religious holiday requires that a sheep, lamb or goat be sacrificed without stunning in accordance with tradition.
But the non-stunned killing of animals in Brussels can only be done in authorised slaughterhouses, such as one abattoir in Anderlecht which, however, does not work with private individuals.
