Horses with giant cysts from repeated pharmaceutical injections were illegally butchered and turned into meat for humans by a criminal gang in southern France, a court has heard.
Some 25 people, including wholesalers, vets, dealers and butchers, stood trial in Marseille on Monday over the alleged scam that saw fake documentation given to horses previously used to produce serums by French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Pasteur at a laboratory farm in southern France.
They had reportedly received jabs against rabies, tetanus and venoms.
