Kidnap fears over theft of performing pony
Fears are growing that the theft of a performing pony promoted every bit the world’s smallest Equus caballus may locomote usage of an equine kidnapping plot.
Star performer Charlie stands only 63cm (2 foot) tall.
His owner, Bartolo Messina, has voiced his fears inwards Italy that a ransom may ultimately locomote demanded for the furnish of the pint-sized performer.
Charlie disappeared from his enclosure at the 47th annual National Horse Fair inwards Città di Castello, inwards the country’s Umbria region.
The thieves are believed to cause got cutting a hole inwards the wire ground some Charlie’s enclosure on Th night, carrying the pony off through a plain of tobacco plants.
The president of the national Equus caballus show, Angelo Capecci, told a local newspaper, the Corriere Dell’Umbria: “We cause got been victims of a serious criminal human activeness that offends too humiliates the equine world.
“The security measures that for years cause got ensured the security of the participants too that cause got ever prevented the occurrence of like incidents, were evidently undermined past times a shameful human activeness that does non reverberate the Equus caballus the world too its values.
“We empathise amongst Bartolo Messina, a non bad equestrian creative someone who loves too lives past times his horses, too had trained the victim of this deplorable episode amongst extraordinary kindness too ability.”
Media cause got reported constabulary suspicions that Charlie was taken past times Italian criminals.
A automobile seen speeding from the place where Charlie was housed may cause got been involved.
A constabulary spokesperson said: “Investigations are continuing. We are non excluding whatever possibilities, including that the perpetrators are usage of a criminal organisation.”
While Charlie is undoubtedly i of the world’s smallest horses, the Guinness World Records lists the smallest living Equus caballus every bit Thumbelina, a miniature mare inwards the U.S. of A. who stands 17.5 inches tall.
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