(Brussels Times) About 10 [sheep] were seized on Friday by police in the Brussels-Midi zone (Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles, Forest) in three raids conducted in connection with the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Adha, according to the Help Animals association.
The association had requested the intervention of the local police to prevent the illegal killing of animals for the festival.
For the first operation, in Anderlecht, a local resident alerted the police, who subsequently discovered the carcass of a dead sheep hanging with its legs tied alongside two other sheep, which were alive but had neither food nor water.
The second intervention was also conducted in response [to] a complaint from a civilian. Police discovered sheep in the cellar of a building near the Midi train station.
