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By h.b. - Feb 28, 2008 - 7:24 PM
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Jaime Ferrero with some of the dead cats - Photo EFE
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Two members of the Partido Popular are expelled from the party after photos of them killing cats appear on the Internet. It comes as a charity launches a webpage alleging cruelty in Spanish abattoirs.
The Partido Popular youth section, ‘Nuevas Generaciones’ has decided to expel two of the party’s candidates on the local election lists in Talavera de la Reina, in Toledo.
Jaime Ferrero and Carlos Vázquez were photographed grinning from ear to ear after having killed at least six cats, with the image appearing on a social site on the Internet. A member of the public decided to alert an animal protection association which has now placed a denuncia against the two men. Article 337 of the penal code means that those who ill-treat animals and show doing so unjustifiably can face upto three years in prison.
It comes as another charity, ‘Igualdad Animal’, has denounced what it describes as torture in some of the abattoirs in Spain.
They allege that animals earmarked for slaughter often face days without food and some cattle suffer greatly before death. On the webpage www.mataderos.info the charity also shows rabbits being given an electric shock ahead of having their throats cut. They show videos of alleged illegal practice against cattle, lambs, rabbits and pigs in abattoirs in the Valencia region.
The Spanish meat industry has denied that animals suffer pain when killed. A spokesman for the Meat Industry Association in Spain, claimed that for food chain reasons the meat industry was one of the most controlled.
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Comments
cathy
28 Feb 2008, 21:51
28 Feb 2008, 21:51
You have the evidence so lock the sick bastards up for the three years. If
not then why not.
munchkin
29 Feb 2008, 00:24
29 Feb 2008, 00:24
These wicked evil people should be locked up for good. This kind of
vicious cruelty does not help Spain or the Spanish people project an image
of a decent country, far from it.
How can any decent person wish to cause pain and suffering to a poor defenceless animal. Shame on these people for eternity.
How can any decent person wish to cause pain and suffering to a poor defenceless animal. Shame on these people for eternity.
hugh
29 Feb 2008, 08:19
29 Feb 2008, 08:19
People who do this, rarely stop there. There is a proven link between
animal cruelty and domestic, or other, violence.
These men are grinning however, because they know they are "buenos chicos", and nothing will be done agaist them.
Those of us who work in animal refuges must pick up the pieces. I walked a dog recently that had had her ears cut off. Probably by a bueno chico.
These men are grinning however, because they know they are "buenos chicos", and nothing will be done agaist them.
Those of us who work in animal refuges must pick up the pieces. I walked a dog recently that had had her ears cut off. Probably by a bueno chico.
Gillian Keating
29 Feb 2008, 09:51
29 Feb 2008, 09:51
This is sick these people are beyond contemt evil and cruel to poor
defenseless creatures lock them up
Nicole
29 Feb 2008, 17:43
29 Feb 2008, 17:43
Real men protect the weak and innocent. Abuse to animals is not only linked
to murder, but racism, paedophilia and rape.
Show these psychopaths the mercy that they showed the animals! ...(none)
Show these psychopaths the mercy that they showed the animals! ...(none)
Paul
29 Feb 2008, 18:23
29 Feb 2008, 18:23
After 30 years in the Army and the Police in the UK I am hardened against
ANY cruelty to humans, it's just water off a ducks back BUT I cannot and DO
NOT either understand or TOLERATE cruelty to ANY ANIMALS and should I see
it or be able to locate the perpetrator as is often the case then I feel it
is only my duty to hand out summary justice to that person as I have done
on many occasions I am pleased to say since living in this country.I know
NOT all Spanish people are cruel towards animals and mainly it is the
country people who are at fault but to treat a dog for example as a
"thing", kept on a short leash,on a parcela or finca with scattered dry
food,little water,no companionship,to guard a property when it cannot
properly do so until you tire of the animal and you then abandon it
somewhere,anywhere.Or to see a child in adult company, kick a puppy or
throw a kitten or cat in the air and not be scolded, you know this is the
next generation of cruel adult to come.
qwerty
02 Mar 2008, 00:35
02 Mar 2008, 00:35
Jaime Ferrero and Carlos Vázquez: I really really hope that someone kills
you
susan wilkins
03 Mar 2008, 21:48
03 Mar 2008, 21:48
How can they do this to other earhlings they are not blind or deaf and
carry out this barbaric scene in front of all the other, how horrific must
that be watching for them, I wish the same could happen to them.
tigermarc
05 Mar 2008, 17:51
05 Mar 2008, 17:51
i have worked with big cats for 32 years and see this sort of thing all the
time pepole who want a statas simbol want to look hard. then we are called
in to pick up the peses. sick humans in a small world the animals have as
much right to be here as us.
dont thay have an animal lincenc in spain to help moniter this sort of thing
dont thay have an animal lincenc in spain to help moniter this sort of thing
Helle, Denmark
19 Mar 2008, 21:03
19 Mar 2008, 21:03
Put the two men to jail for as long as possible !!
Julie van Niekerk
20 Mar 2008, 14:31
20 Mar 2008, 14:31
MAY THESE SAVAGES (ARE THEY HUMAN) ALSO SUFFER ONE DAY, AND I WANT TO BE A
SPECTATOR.
Viv
22 Mar 2008, 03:32
22 Mar 2008, 03:32
I abhore cruelty of any kind so let's not forget Spain's national sport of
bullfighting. This cruel and inhumane 'sport' is unjustifiable. I hope
anyone found being cruel to animals, including bullfighters and the
spectators get their just desserts.
Julia Casablablanca
23 Mar 2008, 21:03
23 Mar 2008, 21:03
the killing of the lambs showed in the website is the same everywhere not
just in Spain
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