1: Peta has filed a complaint on the basis of the RTL report.

2.For this reason, the department of public prosecution in Münster has opened proceedings.

3. This is a normal procedure and does not correspond to the initiation of a public prosecutor's investigation.

4. Ludger Beerbaum has now - after viewing the un-pixelated videos - sent an extensive statement to the German Equestrian Federation and is confident that the federation, after reviewing these statements, will agree with his opinion that the recordings are exclusively showing the permissible training method of “touching”, which are in accordance with the rules.