Community Service for Owner of Weakened Horse that Fell During Sinterklaas Arrival

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The police judge has sentenced a 39-year-old horse owner from Leusden to 30 hours of community service for animal abuse. The man was sentenced because he had provided a horse that was too thin for the arrival of Sinterklaas in Dordrecht. The horse was unable to carry the good saint. "The Sinterklaas festival is an annual children's festival with a healthy and strong horse. That is the image we expect in the Netherlands, but what the children in …

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They had prepared for a great party, but children in Dordrecht were more likely to suffer trauma during the Sinterklaas procession in November 2022. Sinterklaas' horse was very thin and collapsed through all four legs at the end of the procession, with the good saint still on his back. "The animal was lying flat on its stomach," police officers described the scene.