Serbia: ** Save ‘Stara Planina’ Update ** – June 2012. Serbian Environmental Protection Legislation Has Been Changed Twice In The Last Few Years, Simply To Satisfy The Requirement of Investors, Or At The Personal Request Of Companies – Here Are The Real Facts !

As can be seen from all the previous SAV links provided at the end of this news, we have been helping Serbian campaigners / environmentalists to be active with the campaign to save Stara Planina from environmental destruction for quite a while now.  For them this campaign has been one of over four years.  Please look at the individual links to witness how a beautiful area full of flora and fauna is being systematically destroyed – lost forever – there are many, many photographs; please take your time to witness the environmental destruction that is happening – approved and with the full approval of the Serbian government.

31/05/12 – The following report arrived at SAV within the last few days from Serbian environmental campaigners.  We are reproducing the report in full, with no editorials apart from additional bolding and underling of text in areas which we consider are especially important.

We have given our information in the past (November 2011) regarding Stara Planina to both the EU Commission for the Environment – Commissioner Janez Potocnik, and also to the EU Commission for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy – Commissioner Stefan Fule.

Copies of both the response provided to us by the EU, and also that provided to the EU (Nicholas Hanley) by the Serbian Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning are provided below:

Below – the two page response to the EU by the Serbian Ministry of Environment, Mining

and Spatial Planning

 

Below – the two page response by the EU to SAV regarding the issue of Stara Planina:

We question the comments made by Assistant Minister Pokimica in his letter to the EU (first above), where it is declared:

“the Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning pays special attention to this sensitive and very important issue for our country, in particular since it affects both, the status of biodiversity and ecosystems and sustainable economic development of the entire country.  Furthermore, the Government of Serbia reconfirmed the tremendous values of protected areas in recently adopted national strategy for Biodiversity Conservation and also in the new law of Nature protection which is harmonized with relevant EU legislation in this field”.

From the latest information provided to us from environmental campaigners (and reproduced below), it would appear that the policy of the Serbian government is to actually ensure that the Article 35 which has been used for environmental protection in the past, and which has now been modified twice in the last 3 years, has been amended specifically for the benefit of investors, at the personal request of companies which have already made illegal constructions previously on protected natural areas (Stara Planina, Kopaonik, Golija etc…), and in forbidden areas, breaching the laws on the Environment, Planning and Construction.

One could argue that this is hardly reconfirming the alleged government policy of “the tremendous values of protected areas”.

Please review the latest report from the Serbian environmentalists / campaigners and make your own views on the situation.

We have been to the EU about this issue before, and we will now be going back to the EU regarding this latest report from environmental campaigners in Serbia.  Further, we will be in contact with Green MEPs making them fully aware of this current situation from a government which declares it is “harmonized with relevant EU legislation in this field”.

Maybe the actual reality is that Serbian ministries wish to change the laws and get illegal constructions under way PRIOR to becoming an EU member state – a case of doing the damage now before we are prevented from being allowed to do it in the future !

There is a lot associated with this current situation, and we will be providing further information very soon in associated posts on this site.

SAV.

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Here is a copy of some of the data we have been provided with by Serbian environmentalists. 

This is an un-edited copy of the information provided.

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Dear Mark,

As we have promised, if we receive new proof of the breach of laws, during the construction of the mega ski centre in the Park of Nature “Stara Planina”, such an information, we shall immediately forward to the EU, relevant Commission, Mr. Nicholas Hanley, Mr. Janez Potochnik and Mr. Barosso.

Since our Ministry for the Environment, Mr. Nebojsa Pokimica, assistant to the Minister Dulić sent a report to the EU Comission, to Mr. Hanley that there was no breach of laws during the construction of the mega ski centre on Stara Planina, we acquired different information and in our view, consider it necessary to inform the truth to the EU Commission and Mr. Hanley. 

At the end of last year, we were in doubt and filed a complaint on the 21st of November, 2011, to the relevant government officials about the construction of the hotel on Jabučko Ravnište, construction of the gondola and ski lift with four seats to “Babin Zub” which are under construction and last winter in function. Relevant to this and for the construction of the partition on the Debesticka River on Stara Planina, and making the artificial accumulation for the needs of artificial snow, we filed a complaint (in Attachment).
 
On the 20th of December, 2011, we sent an urgent request to:  Inspection of the Environment, Construction Inspection, and Urban Inspection of the Ministry for the Environment, Minining and Spatial Planning. In Belgrade, as officially they must act since these are their fields of responsibility.

On the 27th of December, 2011, we sent our request for the information of Public Importance, ie. copies of our log/notes on the behaviour of the Inspections.

Only on the 10th of April 2012 have we received only a partial answer on the issue brought by the Construction Inspection for the removal of the objects of the four-seat lift and gondola, as they have been constructed without lawful construction agreement.

For the hotel on Jabučko Ravnište, we have received no reply and we suspect that it has been constructed also unlawfully.

We question the legality of this hotel, as no evaluation of its impact on the environment has been analysed (as officially required ba law in Serbia) and further more, there was no infrastructure, electricity, water etc. necessary by Serbian Law (at least on paper), necessary for the construction of such an object in a protected area as is the Park of Nature “Stara Planina”.

The construction of this hotel and mega ski centre was paid out of the budget of Serbia, Public Company “Ski Resorts Serbia”, which with the money of Serbian tax payers together with the violation of laws, built and destroyed the officially protected natural site. Only the hotel on Jabucko Ravniste was constructed with an amount of about 35.000.000 EUR!!!!

We requested by official means on the 27th of December, 2012, copies of reports-agenda on the activities of the Construction Inspectors, but as we have not yet obtained them, we spent a lot of time waiting for this information.

Now we send part of the information received from the Ministry, proving that our suspicion on the legality of this construction is really illegal.
 

Due to the fact that we have not received the information, we filed a complaint to the Office for Information of Public Importance and we must now wait. This Office is burdened by many files including those from citizens, and we wait when the Office will act and force the Ministry to forward us this information.
 
As a supplement, we send the translated text forwarded by an official person from the Ministry  of Environment, Mining and Spatial planning, Belgrade, responsible for handing out information of public concern, Radmila Padežanin, via email.
 
What we wish to point out to the EU Commission is the fact that the Law for the Protection of Nature from the year 2009, (Official Gazette RS No 36/2009) has been changed already twice, for the requirement of investors, on personal request or companies, which already made illegal constructions previously on protected natural areas (Stara Planina, Kopaonik, Golija etc…), forbidden areas, breaching the laws on the Environment, Planning and Construction etc. 

For the first time, the Law on Nature Protection has been changed, amendments to the Law (Official Gazette RS No 88/2010) the Article 35 has been changed concerned with the regime of protection in the already protected areas. With this, various activities have now been allowed in the II and III degree of protected areas, previously not allowed by laws in 2009, Gazette 36/2009. 

By these new by-laws, all illegal actions have been actually legalized and the investors have spare time to apply and legalaize their activities.

As a supplement we send the disputable Article 35 of the Law on Nature Protection (“Official Gazette RS” No 36/2009 and 88/2010) which by changes and amendments of the Law in 2010, severely degraded and reduced the protection in the already lawfully protected natural areas.

Formulations used to express all that is allowed but restricted, without specifying to whom and how, opens the door to corruption and invites to the further destruction of protected natural sites. 

By changing and amending the Law of Nature Protection, (“Official Gazette RS” No 88/2010), according to Article 35, in the areas designated as the II degree of protection, it is not forbidden ie. one may dam waterways, create hydro accumulations for various purposes, meloration, construction of hydroelectric plants, construction of tourist capacities-hotels, construction of ski lifts, construction of tourist, traffic, energy, communal and other infrastructure. construction of housing objects, fishponds, agricultural farms, farms for breeding domestic and wild animals, hunting, fishing, collecting mushrooms, other plant and animal species, explotation of rock, clay and other natural raw materials, the formation of forest and agricultural monocultures, application of chemicals and introduction of alochton species.

According to the same Article 35, in areas designated as degree III of protection, it is not forbidden to construct industrial and energy projects, asphalt bases, tourist capacities and ski resorts, infrastructure objects, warehouses  for industrial goods and building materials, holiday houses, exploitation and processing of raw minerals, forming areas for processing garbage, construction of habitation areas and the widening of construction areas, hunting, fishing, formation of agricultural and forestry monocultures, application of chemical compounds etc.
All this additionally legalizes the current state in protected natural areas, which in the meantime, various individuals and companies did and built illegally and for years destroyed these natural areas.

There is no protected natural site in Serbia that has not been destroyed in these ways, which were legalized by Law in 2010.

More than 90% of the protected areas in Serbia are now in the categories II and III.

It is a fact that in Serbia only 6% of the territory is protected as natural heritages; aiming at saving the biological and environmental diversity and general natural heritage and that these 6% under protection have already been divided under various regimes of protection, in which the I regime occupies only 0.50% of these 6% of protected areas !!

Under the current laws, in the II and III regime of protection, numerous activities are allowed, making it impossible to protect these regions, including those under regime I.

All this is in practice not mentioned and there is general chaos in all the protected areas, all this is now being currently legalized

Besides all this, our Government has in April 2012 brought a new Decree on the regimes in protected areas, although it already entered the pre-election campaign, and such actions are not acceptable.

This Decree additionally degrades the valuable natural heritages of the I degree of protection, confirming and explaining how the natural sites of I degree will be degraded and initiating further, with confusion allowing everyone to act at will with various permissions, spurring new corruption already in existence, not only in this case, but within Serbia as a whole.

Nature protection has been reduced to satisfying megalomaniac requirements of suspectful capital of the “ Business sector”.

The decree concerning the regime of protection published in the Official Gazette 31/2012 enabled that protected areas may be further destroyed in various ways, and that the energy lobby and similar lobbies, have open doors for the further destruction of the environment and protected areas (just to mention, Serbia is the top country in wasteful energy consumption).

The new Decree on the regime of protection, with which new problems are opened, as the Decree is in contradiction with Laws and Acts of proclaiming a protected area, opens the door to increased corruption etc.

The situation is precarious for many already existing protected areas in Serbia, since it is now allowed to perform activities in regimes II and III which have up to now been forbidden.

This will destroy the small areas and the protection of regime I. If all above listed activities are now allowed in areas designated as II and III, the question arises how much territory is really protected.

Also it is a question if protected natural sites under the circumstances really deserve to be considered as protected under the designated categories.

Although only 6% of the territory of Serbia is protected, there are endless attempts to build and destroy just in these regions.

A much higher percentage of Serbian territory deserves protection. Unfortunately, the Government is not interested in increasing the areas deserving protection.

All these activites show that our Government opened a new season and gives support for the destruction of the remaining protected natural areas. Applying such measures as proposed by current Laws is unacceptable and will result further degradation of the biodiversity for which the protected sites were established in the first place.

It should be mentioned that a number of professionals, including expert Serbian meteorologists, warn that in the future, Serbia will be faced with droughts, due to general warming, lack of water, reduced agriculture production etc.

For the Government, this warning is not enough and the next plan is to build a ski resort on Radan Mountain close to Kosovo. This mountain is in the warmer South, and only 1409m above sea level.

One should really pay attention to how donations are spent, what activities are undertaken with this money and is it used for the further destruction of the Serbian Environment, not to mention the possible corruption behind all this.

*** All these activities and Laws should be carefully analysed by the responsible bodies of the EU and corrections should be made by the Serbian Government before any further financial aids are allowed or talks of membership in the EU continue. ***

As a supplement, we send all articles of the Law on the Protection of the Environment and copy of the Official Gazette RS with the published amendments and regimes of protection.

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Links to previous SAV posts relating to Stara Planina. 

Please look at the photographs within them to see how beautiful natural environments of both flora and fauna are being systematically destroyed:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/serbia-eu-environment-and-eu-enlargement-commissions-stara-planina-serbia-update-december-2011-do-eu-commissioners-speak-the-truth-or-simply-weasel-words/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/serbia-and-the-eu-does-the-eu-dog-wag-the-environmental-tail-or-the-serbian-government-eu-accession-tail-actually-wag-the-eu-dog/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/eu-serbia-are-they-both-leading-us-up-the-environmental-garden-path/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/serbia-does-it-now-realise-that-law-implementation-is-a-serious-issue/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/serbia-stara-planina-update-the-governments-illegal-environmental-destruction-continues-full-news-and-pictures-in-this-post/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/serbia-campaign-for-the-protection-of-zvezdara-forest-in-belgrade/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/golema-reka-draft/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/240809-global-launch-of-campaign-to-save-stara-planina-animals-and-plants-international-supporters-your-individual-help-is-essential-please-copy-and-send-letter-given-in-post-below/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/serbia-save-stara-planina/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/stara-planina-200809-few-days-till-launch-of-next-campaign-phase/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/serbia-campaign-to-save-flora-and-fauna-at-stara-planina/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/serbia-more-major-environmental-destruction-planned-your-help-needed-to-raise-global-awareness/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/serbia-please-give-your-petition-support-to-save-serbian-beautiful-river-rzav-from-government-and-industry-abuse/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/serbia-beautiful-environmental-region-of-serbia-to-become-ski-centre-please-read-and-take-action/

Below – Pictures from Stara Planina prior to the Government of Serbia changing the environmental regulations for its own convenienceas the above photos show, we have now entered a time when:

“the Government of Serbia reconfirmed the tremendous values of protected areas in recently adopted national strategy for Biodiversity Conservation and also in the new law of Nature protection which is harmonized with relevant EU legislation in this field”.

Hmm  !!!

 

Remember Luca Magnotta Who Proudly Posted Cat Killings on the Internet ? – It Started With Animals, and As We Always Say, Leads to Human Abuses. Again, Welfare People Appear Correct. And the Politicians ? ….. Ignorant As Is Often the Case.

Nationwide manhunt underway for Luka Rocco Magnotta as police search for missing body parts

Luka Rocco Magnotta, left, is alleged to have killed a man and left the torso in a suitcase.

Top-right: Janitor Eric Schorer looks at liquid in a fridge at Magnotta’s apartment. Bottom-right: Police investigate the scene where the body was found.  Photo – National Post.

SAV Comment – Despite overwhelming proof, time after time, that people who commit sadistic crimes on other people, ie. Murderers, abusers, torturers etc, start their ‘early work’ by abusing animals – see the Luka Rocco kitten killings as early evidence of what happened here.

When are politicians actually going to take notice of the crystal clear evidence that is presented to them and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ?, rather than live with their heads up above the clouds or on another planet.

Maybe the real headline here should be – “Don’t only blame Luca Magnotta – blame the ignorants in politics who forever turn the other way, despite the evidence ! ”

WANT SOME PROOF ???

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4349658/Magnottas-disturbed-disturbing-disgustingbrlooking-in-his-eyesbr-left-me-shaken.html

Young animals

By MATT WILKINSON
SOME of the world’s worst serial killers slaughtered defenceless animals as children.

BOSTON STRANGLER Albert DeSalvo, who molested and murdered 13 women from 1962 to 1964, trapped dogs and cats as a child and shot them dead with arrows.

As a boy, hitchhiker killer EDMUND KEMPER — convicted in 1973 of murdering eight womendecapitated cats and put their heads on spikes.

JEFFREY DAHMER murdered and dismembered at least 16 men and boys from 1978-91 in the US. When young he dissolved a squirrel in chemicals.

SON OF SAM David Berkowitz shot dead six people in New York in the 1970s. He killed dogs as a boy and said he was commanded to kill by a possessed dog.

TED BUNDY watched his father torture animals. He admitted 30 US murders in the 1970s. As a boy, ANDREW CUNANAN, who killed designer Gianni Versace in 1997, burned out crabs’ eyes with matches.

CROSSBOW CANNIBAL Stephen Griffiths, 42 — who killed hookers in Bradford in 2009-10 — once ate a live RAT.

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Remember Luca Magnotta?

The guy whose snuff videos surfaced on the internet?
 
That was with the kittens he suffocated in a vacuum bag, and the other where he stuck the kitten in a Christmas hat and gave it to a snake to kill.

And now this.
 
This is what happens when people like that and their animal abusing actions are not taken seriously.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/30/luka-rocco-magnotta-manhunt/
 
Nationwide manhunt underway for Luka Rocco Magnotta as police search for missing body parts
Graeme Hamilton  May 30, 2012

WARNING: Story contains graphic content
The police had finished their work inside and Apartment 208 was pretty much stripped bare, but the stomach-turning stench and darkened red stain on the mattress left little doubt that something terrible had happened here.
“The smell of death is not funny,” Eric Schorer, the building’s superintendent, said as he opened the door Wednesday afternoon. “If you look at the bed, that’s where it happened.”

Within hours, Montreal police would issue a wanted bulletin for the tenant of the one-room apartment, 29-year-old Luka Rocco Magnotta, sought for one of the most gruesome killings in Montreal in recent memory.
Not only was the unidentified victim dismembered, not only were two body parts apparently mailed to political parties in Ottawa, but it has emerged that the killer filmed his crime and posted it on the Internet. The snuff film titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick, depicting the dismemberment of an Asian male body and various indignities to the remains, has provoked online debate about its veracity since it was posted last week. Police have confirmed the video depicts the actual crime.
A janitor had stumbled on the victim’s torso Tuesday when investigating a foul smell coming from a suitcase thrown out in an alley behind an apartment in Montreal’s Snowdon neighbourhood. The same day, federal Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa received a Canada Post parcel containing a human foot, and police discovered a second package containing a hand in an Ottawa postal station. That package was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Montreal police said in a statement that “concrete elements allow police to believe” that the Ottawa and Montreal incidents are connected, but pathology tests are being conducted for confirmation.

Mr. Magnotta, who has also been known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, has left abundant traces on the Internet. A Toronto native, he had worked in gay porn and as a model, but more recently he attracted attention after being linked to a 2010 online video showing kittens being suffocated with the aid of a vacuum cleaner.
A blog attributed to him and titled “Necrophilia Serial Killer Luka Magnotta” included this March 2012 post:
“It’s not cool to the world being a necrophiliac. It’s bloody lonely. But I dont (sic) really care, I have never cared what people thought of me, most people are judgemental idiots. I’m unable to talk to anybody about it and there’s always the knowledge that 99% of people would be repulsed by me if they found out about my feelings. Some people would even want to harm me.”

In another blog post from 2009, Mr. Magnotta offered step-by-step instruction on starting a new life in another country
“A minimum of four months is really necessary to carry out the heroic actions necessary to leave your old life behind,” he wrote, according to the Ottawa Citizen.
Mr. Magnotta denied online rumours that he was in a relationship with notorious schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka. Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafrenière said Wednesday that police believe he “could have been a good friend” of Homolka in the past.

He had moved into his Décarie Boulevard apartment about four months ago, Mr. Schorer said. The building, built as an apartment-hotel for Expo ’67, now rents out furnished flats for $490-a-month and attracts residents from newly arrived immigrants and students to drug addicts. After the janitor found the torso Tuesday, police went over the building’s five security cameras and asked Mr. Schorer to identify a man putting something in the building’s garbage. “I said, that’s the guy in 208,” he said.

After a Google search turned up evidence of Mr. Magnotta’s film career, he had become known in the building as Porn Star. He rarely spoke to the other residents, but Mr. Schorer said he was friendly enough and always paid his rent on time.
“He seemed like a really nice guy, really,” he said. “It’s like you see on TV all the time.… It’s almost a cliché or a joke.”
Neighbour Derek MacKinnon, an actor whose best-known role was as a killer in the 1980 slasher film Terror Train, was one of the few people who struck up a conversation with Mr. Magnotta.

“One day we talked, and I said, ‘You and I have something in common. We’re both in film, but I’m not in the same kind of film world you’re in.’ He just laughed,” Mr. MacKinnon said. Later Mr. Magnotta confided that he was worried about his porn career haunting him forever and asked for advice about getting into “legitimate” movies.
Then about five days ago, he invited Mr. MacKinnon up to his apartment as they sat on the front step, where residents gather on warm nights to drink beer. “He said, ‘You’ve never been to my apartment, why don’t you come up?’ And I didn’t, thank God.”

Richard Payette was running his air conditioner full blast Wednesday to fend off the smell coming from Apt. 208 across the hall. He said he never got so much as a hello out of his neighbour, but nothing in recent days suggested crimes were being committed a few metres away.

“Believe me, if there were screams or anything I would have notified somebody, but he was quiet as a mouse, this guy,” he said. Looking out his back window, he had recently noticed the suitcase among the garbage bags in the back alley. “I was telling myself maybe I should pick that suitcase up. You know, one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure,” he said. “I’m glad I didn’t, but it looked too new to be in the garbage.”

The online video shows a naked male, tied to a bed frame, being attacked with both an ice pick and a kitchen knife, according to the description on a website called Best Gore. The victim is stabbed, has his throat slashed and is later decapitated and dismembered. The video was posted on Best Gore on May 25, but it is unclear when, or where, it was filmed.
“1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick is without a doubt the sickest thing you will have ever seen in your entire life,” Best Gore writes.
At the end of the video, a photo is shown of a person dressed in a purple hooded jacket or sweater, leaning over while holding what appears to be an ice pick. His or her face is mostly obscured — the only details that can be made out are the individual’s light skin, dark hair of cheekbone length and a poster for the movie Casablanca on the wall.

Montreal police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Mr. Magnotta’s arrest. Cmdr. Lafrenière said police had not recovered all of the victim’s body and have not been able to identify him. In addition to the torso in the suitcase and hand and foot found in Ottawa, other body parts were found at the apartment building, he said.
“It’s sick in the head,” he said of the crime. “I’ve been talking to investigators who have been doing this for more than 30 years, and they have never seen anything like that.”

One of Mr. Magnotta’s relatives told the Ottawa Citizen the family spent Wednesday night close to the phone in case Canada’s highest-profile fugitive calls while on the lam. “He hurt us when he was younger and we haven’t been in contact with him in a while,” the relative said. ”We heard about all of this on the news and then the police called and asked us to let them know if he calls us.”
National Post, with files from Armina Ligaya, Allison Cross and Vidya Kauri and Postmedia News
 
 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/police-find-grisly-scene-in-apartment-of-body-parts-suspect/article2447319/
 
Police find grisly scene in apartment of body-parts suspect
INGRID PERITZ AND  STEVEN CHASE AND DANIEL LEBLANC
MONTREAL, OTTAWA AND OTTAWA— From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, May. 30, 2012 8:55AM EDT

The scene inside Apartment 208 bears the marks of gruesome violence. A stain spreads across the double mattress and a crumpled pink sheet atop it is streaked in dried blood.

The studio apartment, located in a boxy, brick building overlooking an expressway in Montreal, became the focus of a police investigation into what has emerged as a sordid and bizarre crime that has ricocheted to federal political party offices in Ottawa.

The second-floor apartment was the home of Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, the leading suspect in a murder and dismemberment case that began after a man’s torso was found stuffed in a locked suitcase in Montreal.

Police say Mr. Magnotta, a model and adult-film actor, is believed to be from Toronto and repeatedly used aliases and changed his name over the years. He was Eric Clinton Kirk Newman until he changed his name in 2006.
He is wanted in connection with the delivery of a human left foot to the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters.
A packaged hand, intercepted by Ottawa police, was also addressed to be delivered to Liberal Party offices, a source said.

Montreal police believe that the macabre murder and dismemberment was captured on video and posted on a website that specialized in gore, gaining widening circulation as the extent of the crime became public Wednesday.

“It is a video of the murder,” a Montreal police official confirmed to The Globe.
Police warn that not all of the murder victim, a male, has been recovered but refuse to say whether they believe more pieces of his body are still in Canada Post’s mail system.

“We are still missing a few parts of the puzzle in terms of body parts, so yes, this is a special crime scene,” Montreal police spokesman Commander Ian Lafrenière said.

The Montreal police confirmed that the torso found in Montreal is likely from the same body as the hand and the foot that were mailed to political parties in Ottawa, although an official DNA match is still in the works.
“We have all the reasons to believe that it is linked to our homicide,” Cdr. Lafrenière said.
The Conservative Party, meanwhile, offered more details on the grisly unpacking of a foot in their offices Tuesday, revealing that Stephen Harper’s campaign manager, Jenni Byrne, witnessed the opening of the bloody parcel.
The incident left Tory staffers traumatized.

“The package was brought to Ms. Byrne because it looked suspicious,” Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said. “It was opened, Ms. Byrne examined it, saw the blood and smelled the odour and made the decision to call police.”
He added: “It was such a horrible odour I’m sure many of us will not forget it.”
Tory sources said that package, which bore the drawing of a red heart, was addressed to the Conservative Party rather than a particular person.

CTV News reported that a note was enclosed with the severed foot indicating a total of six body parts had been distributed, and that the sender planned to kill again.
Montreal police said the murder was not a random act, as the suspect and his victim knew one another. Cdr. Lafrenière did not want to go into details about allegations that Mr. Magnotta was captured killing kittens on a video that circulated on the Internet.

“We’ve heard about it, but we don’t have confirmation. Our main priority is to find our suspect,” Cdr. Lafrenière said.
Mr. Magnotta is also reported to have dated notorious sex killer Karla Homolka.
The video shows someone repeatedly stabbing a young man, then dismembering the corpse and committing cannibalistic acts on it.

And the Montreal police official said what the force found in Mr. Magnotta’s apartment was horrific.
“For most of the officers who have been there all night long, this is the type of crime scene that they have never seen in their lives, in their career.”

Police had spent Tuesday combing through the second-floor apartment in Montreal’s Snowdon district, and on Wednesday afternoon, black fingerprinting powder still covered the table and chairs. Orange police tape flew from the balcony railing over Montreal’s noisy Décarie expressway.

Whatever had happened inside in recent days had left behind a grisly trail. Building superintendent Eric Schorer came in to cart away the stained mattress; small puddles of blood lay on the box spring beneath it. More splotches of blood covered the floor of the fridge, leading to speculation that body parts may have been stored there.
A gut-turning stench filled the room.

“When I first opened the door, I almost heaved,” Mr. Schorer said. “It’s the smell of death.”
Mr. Magnotta moved in three to four months ago, Mr. Schorer said. He told the building’s management he had come from Toronto to take a job caring for seniors in Montreal’s Côte St. Luc district; he also said he had a child in Montreal. However, shortly after moving in, residents in the building Googled his name and thereafter nicknamed him “Porn Star.”
 Mr. Magnotta paid his $490-a-month rent by cheque and rarely spoke to his neighbours, according to accounts from those living in the building.
 

On Wednesday, police began circulating a photo of a man linked to the crime whom they described as “missing.” He was an Asian man who appeared to be in his 30s, Mr. Schorer said.
 The suitcase containing the victim’s remains was left at the end of a driveway behind the apartment building, along with the tenants’ regular garbage. Mike Nadeau, the building janitor, says he first noticed the suitcase last Friday, and thinks it had been there several days. One tenant said the suitcase looked brand new.
 Normally, Montreal garbage crews would have taken the bag away during regular garbage collection on Fridays. However, perhaps because there was an unusual amount of old furniture and other detritus left out that day, the luggage was left behind.
 

Mr. Nadeau approached the locked suitcase, which smelled and was swarming with flies. When he broke it open, he found a torso and shoulders without a head. The body appeared to have been dismembered.
 Mr. Schorer said police seized footage from security cameras around the building. 
 
Further link:

Alleged Cat Killer Turns Alleged Murderer In Canada

http://news.petpardons.com/alleged-cat-killer-turns-alleged-murderer-in-canada/

France: ‘Disney’ – He will be euthanasied on the 22nd of May if not adopted – Can You Help ? – Please Crosspost.

Contact : papillon60000@hotmail.fr

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvdN0r0uYE0

 Betreff: FW: Disney lab noir 3 ans à sauver avant le 22/05/12 (60)

Übersetzt: Big Notfall für Disney, männlich Labi der 3 Jahre alt.
Er wird am 22. Mai euthanasieren werden, wenn keine Lösung für ihn.
Disney ist wirklich bis in einer kleinen Box bleiben zugeführt. Er will sich nicht in mehr zu bekommen, und als sie ihn um die Kiste zu zwingen, weigert er sich …
Es ist der Grund, warum wollen sie ihn töten.   Bitte nicht geschehen lassen! …………………………… Kontakt und mehr Infos am Ende des Mails…..

une vidéo : http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=QvdN0r0uYE0

 

Big emergency for Disney, male labi of 3 years old.

He will be euthanasied on the 22nd of May if no solution for him.

Disney is really fed up to stay in a small box. He does not want to get in anymore, and when they force him to enter the box, he refuses…

It is the reason why, they want to kill him.
Please, do not let this happen!!!

There is video down the mail…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvdN0r0uYE0
 

Subject: Disney lab noir 3 ans à sauver avant le 22/05/12 (60)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:45:24 +0200

pour diffusion merci d’avanc
DISNEY mâle X labrador noir 3 ans eutha le 22/05/2012 (60)
Disney est né le 20/08/2008 et est au refuge depuis début 01/2012 (trouvé donc passé inconnu)
Il est pucé (250269602362428) et vacciné, pas stérilisé
Suite à 2 épisodes agressifs (grognements, pas de morsures) qu’il y aurait eu avec les employés, le refuge a décidé qu’il n’était pas plaçable et veut l’euthanasier
Il n’y a aucun souci avec les divers bénévoles qui le promènent et je pense que c’est tout simplement un chien qui ne supporte pas le box : parfois il refusait de rentrer qd il était dans un petit, là il est de nouveau dans un grand et tout est revenu à la normale
Pas de mâles, femelles probablement ok sauf pour la gamelle, chats pas franchement non mais il les regarde bizarrement donc je pense à éviter, pas de pts enfants, besoin d’un jardin, chien agréable en promenade, calme et câlin

Frais d’adoption : don libre minimum 50 €, idem si transfert asso
L’adoptant ou l’asso qui le prendra en charge devra en outre signer un document disant qu’il prend le chien en connaissance de cause et qu’il décharge le refuge de tout pb ultérieur

Si quelqu’un veut lui donner une chance c’est maintenant : ce n’est pas un monstre, juste un chien qui a besoin d’être aimé et de connaitre le bonheur d’une famille… Et personne ne peut prévoir qd il adopte un chien quel qu’il soit qu’il ne mordra pas un jour donc pas plus de risque avec Disney qu’un autre chien

Contact : papillon60000@hotmail.fr

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Merci pour lui !

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une vidéo :  <http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=QvdN0r0uYE0> http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=QvdN0r0uYE0

A DECOUVRIR ! Le site  <http://www.clicanimaux.com/> www.ClicAnimaux.com permet en un clic de nourrir gratuitement un animal abandonné

Envoyez “SPA” par sms au 81039 : 1,40 ? reversé à la SPA (pour un coût de 3 ?)

Serbia: Latest From ‘Felix’ Cat Shelter / Sanctuary – Photos, Info and Appeal to Help With New Building Updates Due to Terrible Winter – Can You Help Please ?

*** PLEASE CROSSPOST TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS – NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ***

My name is Danica Mirkovic, I’m the president of Felinologic Association Felix and the owner of Cat Shelter Felix (it’s more of a sanctuary) in Serbia.

Felinologic Association Felix is an association of cat lovers, founded by my associates and me in Novi Sad, Serbia, a few years ago. It is registered as a nonprofit organization in Serbian Business Registers Agency, ID number: 08841187, Tax Identification Number: 103793133.

We were taking care of stray cats, trying to make their life on the street easier, but our protégés were endangered all the time. I have always thought that building of a shelter would mean safety for those (and other) cats so it finally took place in 2010.

My shelter is registered as a shelter of Felinologic Association Felix in Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry and Water Management, Department of Veterinary Medicine.  Cat Shelter Felix is located in a small village in Vojvodina, Serbia.

I have more than 100 cats in my shelter right now, all of them ex – strays. They are all neutered and spayed, vaccinated and checked by the vet on the regular basis and although some of them are very old or chronically ill it seems that they enjoy their life here.

In spite of the fact that my shelter is rather crowded, I can never turn my back on a cat in desperate situation, therefore they keep arriving every now and then. As the number of cats grows bigger, my expenses rise and it becomes harder and harder to defray them all, but the sight of happy kitties that are playing and running and resting completely relaxed, probably for the first time in their lives, makes all the efforts worthwhile.

The situation in Cat Shelter Felix is very dire indeed as the shelter has been damaged by unusually harsh winter. Workers are supposed to start repairing a roof and making a concrete backyard in April and it will cost about 8,500 euros.

My shelter depends of donations entirely and every kind of help is needed, welcome and greatly appreciated.

For further information please check out:

http://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/9425-repairing-the-damaged-cat-shelter

You can also read Laura’s story of Danica’s shelter on ‘care2’:
http://www.care2.com/causes/sanctuary-offers-sunny-days-for-street-cats-in-serbia.html#comments

Here (above and below) are some very recent pictures that Danica has sent to us of all the cats at the shelter enjoying the better weather now.

Please put word out to all your contacts – everywhere !
We need to get the money in to help Danica and the cats complete all the work that is needed this summer.

Whatever you can give in the way of a donation, not matter how small or large, please do it.  This is very much appreciated.

PayPal button is on both the webiste and the blog – these include both PayPal and direct bank payment details:

Blog – http://novisadcats.blogspot.com/

Website  –  http://catshelterfelix.com/

Thank you very much in advance for any donation you may be able to provide.

Please crosspost this information to all your national and international contacts.

Thank you;

Danica and SAV.

Previous SAV Posts:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/serbia-post-winter-repairs-at-felix-shelter-are-costing-can-you-help-costs-with-a-donation-paypal-link-provided/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/serbia-the-felix-kitties-have-got-a-website-please-visit-and-take-a-look/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/serbia-big-freeze-across-europe-latest-pictures-from-cat-shelter-felix-can-you-help-with-a-donation/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/serbia-please-help-the-kitties-at-felix-shelter-with-a-winter-donation-thank-you/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/serbia-financial-appeal-to-help-the-cats-this-winter-at-felix-shelter/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/serbia-felix-cat-shelter-a-request-for-financial-help-please-can-you-give-a-donation-full-details-below/

Germany: German Hunters Who Call Themselves: ‘Special Pearls’, ‘Beacons To Society’ and ‘Tireless Inspirations To Others’. We Call Them “Another Species and Animal Abusing Murderers”. View the Photos and Decide for Yourselves.

Directly below – photographs we have obtained from Germany showing the results of the ‘work’ which has been undertaken by the German hunt community “special pearls” who are (in their own words, certainly not ours) such a “beacon” to society – serving as a ‘tireless inspiration’ for others.

We call them “another species animal abusing murderers who get a perverted kick out of their lust to kill everything in their sights”.

This is the work of the ‘special pearls’ who are such a tireless inspiration to other sadistic morons.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,829271,00.html

First Sighting in 123 Years – Wolf Shot Dead in Western Germany


 
The dead wolf was found in a forest near the town of Gensingen in the Westerwald region of Germany.

A wolf was sighted in the Westerwald region of western Germany for the first time in 123 years in February. It didn’t survive long.  Hikers found its body on Saturday after it was illegally shot dead. Wildlife conservationists are appalled and the local hunting association has offered a reward to find the perpetrator.

The first wolf to be spotted in the Westerwald hill region of western Germany in 123 years was found shot dead on Saturday just a few weeks after it was first sighted.

Hikers discovered the body of the animal that was killed with a large-caliber weapon, suggesting that the perpetrator may be a hunter, police said. 

SAV Comment: (ie. ‘special pearls’ who are such a tireless inspiration to others).

The shooting was illegal because the wolf is a protected species, and wildlife conservationists and local hunters said they were appalled by the shooting.  The regional hunting association has offered a reward of €1,000 ($1,300) to find the culprit.

“The killing of the wolf must be fully investigated and the person responsible must be held to account,” said Kurt Alexander Michael, president of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional hunting federation. “If it was a hunter, he can expect a high fine and the loss of his hunting license.”

The wolf, a large male weighing 30 kilograms (66 pounds), was first seen near the village of Steimel at the end of February. Wildlife experts had said the animal was harmless.

Nature conservation group BUND said in a statement on Monday: “We cannot understand why there are people who don’t want to allow space for nature and its creatures. We should be happy that the wolf, made extinct by humans and bedevilled for centuries, is living in the wild in Germany again.”

Wolves were hunted to extinction in Germany in the 20th century and only began returning to the country in 2000. So far, they have been confined mainly to the east of the country. More than 100 animals are estimated to be roaming German forests.
Their reintroduction has led to tensions between conservationists on the one side and farmers and hunters on the other but a recent study found that wolves largely feed on animals they find in the wild, and not on livestock such as sheep. However, wolf killings of livestock do happen.

*** Update *** –

The person shooting the only wolf in Rheinland-Pfalz is

a ‘special pearl’ who is such a tireless inspiration to others), A HUNTER, aged 71.

He came forward yesterday evening ..
He is sorry he shot a wolf, he sayshe though it was a dog.

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SAV Comment – So simply killing a dog is ok by hunter rules ?

What has the dog done wrong to be killed by such a brain dead ?

Shows what brain dead moron ‘pearls’ are on the streets with guns acting as such an ‘inspiration’ to all others !!!!

What will he shoot and kill next time ? – a young child that is playing in the long grass or in a woodland area ? – are we then going to hear “oh, sorry, my pearls of wisdom thought it was a wolf” – I am a hunter you know, top of the tree !

The hunters attitude – if it currently lives and I can kill it, regardless of any benefit to anything, then I will.  I am a hunter; I am a Pearl; I am an inspiration to all others !  I  am at the top of the brain dead tree; I have a gun; dont mess with me.

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http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/rheinland-pfalz-jaehriger-erschiesst-einzigen-wolf-im-westerwald-1.1341091
 
Rheinland-Pfalz 71-Jähriger erschießt einzigen Wolf im Westerwald
24.04.2012, 19:07
Zum ersten Mal seit mehr als 120 Jahren wurde vor zwei Monaten im rheinland-pfälzischen Westerwald wieder ein Wolf gesichtet. Jetzt ist er tot. Erschossen.
 
Ein 71-Jähriger hat vermutlich den ersten seit langem in Rheinland-Pfalz gesichteten Wolf erschossen. Der Mann habe sich bei der Kriminalinspektion Montabaur gemeldet und zugegeben, am vergangenen Samstag die Schüsse abgegeben zu haben, teilte die Polizei am Dienstag mit. Laut Polizei wurde das Tier mit einer großkalibrigen Waffe erschossen. Das Motiv und weitere Details seien bislang nicht bekannt.
 
Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur dapd zufolge ist der Schütze Jäger und Pächter des Waldstücks. Ein Funktionär des Landesjagdverbands sagte, der Schütze habe den Wolf für einen wildernden Hund gehalten. “Dass er einen Wolf erschossen hat, tut ihm unendlich leid.”
Spaziergänger hatten das tote Tier am Samstag gefunden. Ein Gentest soll klären, ob es sich tatsächlich um einen Wolf handelt. Die Ergebnisse dürften nach Angaben des rheinland-pfälzischen Umweltministeriums diesen Mittwoch vorliegen. “Wir gehen zu 99 Prozent davon aus, dass es sich bei dem toten Tier um den Wolf handelt”, sagte ein Sprecher des Landesjagdverbands Rheinland-Pfalz.
Erst Ende Februar war der Wolf bei Steimel im Kreis Neuwied im Westerwald entdeckt und fotografiert worden. Es war die erste mit Bildern belegte Sichtung eines Wolfes seit 123 Jahren auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz.
“Die Tötung des Wolfes ist eine hinterhältige Tat”, sagte Nabu-Bundesgeschäftsführer Leif Miller laut Mitteilung in Berlin. Dem Täter drohe eine Freiheitsstrafe von bis zu fünf Jahren.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,829551,00.html
 
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HEROES: German Woman receives Medal of Merit for Committment to Hunting

Anneliese Merx of Schluechtern receives the Medal of Merit of the Order of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstmedaille) for several decades of voluntary commitment in the area of hunting in Germany.
 
Anneliese Merx received her award of distinction in the presence of board members of the county hunting association and other persons linked to hunting from district administrator Erich Pipa (SPD).
In his laudation he described Anneliese Merx as a “special pearl” and a “beacon” – serving as a tireless inspiration for others. (and more bla bla of the sort ..)
 
After receiving the award Anneliese Merx thanked her husband (with whom she breeds hunting dogs) and her board colleagues at the county hunting association.
She would always strive, she said, to do her part within the work group of the association encompassing all aspects of hunting and the preservation of hunting culture.
 
Anneliese Merx, who will turn 77 in just a few days, was born in Hutten. Her father practiced a very strong voluntary commitment – his focus lay on communal politics, hers on hunting.

She got her own licence in 1968, and practiced hunting together with her husband in the community district of Sannerz irst, and from 1986 to 1999 in their private hunting district Ramholz. Together with her husband she wrote and published the 365 page standard work “„Der Deutsche Langhaar-Gebrauchshund“ (the German longhair all-purpose dog)

Her grandson Jonas expressed his pride for his granny for so diligently tending to the website.

http://www.fuldaerzeitung.de/nachrichten/kinzigtal/Kinzigtal-Bundesverdienstmedaille-fuer-Anneliese-Merx;art40,546480
 
Bundesverdienstmedaille für Anneliese Merx
Von Karl Th. Hahn
Gelnhausen/ Schlüchtern
 
Für ihr über Jahrzehnte dauerndes vielseitiges ehrenamtliches Wirken im Bereich Jagdgeschehen wurde der Schlüchternerin Anneliese Merx die Verdienstmedaille des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verliehen.
Anneliese Merx erhielt ihre hohe Auszeichnung gestern im Beisein der Vorstandsmitglieder des Kreisjagdvereins und weiterer mit der Jagd verbundener Personen von Landrat Erich Pipa (SPD) im Brüder-Grimm-Zimmer des Main-Kinzig-Forums in Gelnhausen.

In seiner Laudatio bezeichnete Pipa Anneliese Merx als „besondere Perle“ und „Leuchtturm“. Durch ihr Wirken sei sie unermüdlich beispielgebend für andere. Das Kreisoberhaupt ging dann auf die vielseitigen ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeiten der zu Ehrenden ein. Dazu sei sie nur deshalb in der Lage, weil sie von ihrer Familie und besonders von ihrem Mann Heinrich unterstützt werde. Auch ihnen gebühre deshalb Dank.

Nach der Überreichung der Verdienstmedaille und der dazu gehörigen Urkunde bedankte sich Anneliese Merx bei ihrem Mann und den Vorstandskollegen im Kreisjagdverein.

Sie sei stets bemüht, ihren Anteil an der guten Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Verein zu leisten, die das ganze Spektrum des Jagdgeschehens umfasse und der Erhaltung der Jagdkultur diene.

Die in wenigen Tagen 77 Jahre alt werdende Anneliese Merx wurde in Hutten geboren. Bei ihrem Vater habe sie, so ihre Worte, eine starke ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit erlebt. Er habe diese in der Kommunalpolitik ausgeübt, sie habe sich hingegen dem Bereich der Jagd zugewandt.

1968 legte sie die Jägerprüfung ab, und betrieb die Jagd zusammen mit ihrem Mann zunächst im Gemeindejagdbezirk Sannerz und von 1986 bis 1999 im Eigenjagdbezirk Ramholz. Zusammen mit ihren Mann erarbeitete sie das 365 Seiten starke Standardwerk „Der Deutsche Langhaar-Gebrauchshund“.

Karl Roth, der Vorsitzende des Kreisjagdvereins Schlüchtern, dankte ihr für das hohe Maß an Engagement, das sie in vielseitiger Hinsicht erbringe. Ihr Enkel Jonas äußerte seinen Stolz auf seine Oma, weil sie die Internet-Homepage gut führe.

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Link:    The website of a German hunting ammunition supplier:

http://lutz-moeller-jagd.de/

http://lutz-moeller-jagd.de/Wild/Wild.html

which shows a lot of disgusting images such as this:

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SAV Comment – If the Pearls and tireless inspirations get a kick out of looking at websites showing this, then it kind of sums up their approach to all life really. 

Give them all a Medal of Merit !

A comment left on SAV – and one which says it all:

What disgusting and cowardly people these “hunters” are. And what does it say about German society that they are given awards and praise? These types of lowlife are found here in the UK too but they’re not praised, except in their own bloodthirsty circles and much of the killing shown in the above pictures would be illegal here. Even the “legal” killing isn’t supported by the majority of people here. Germany has such beautiful countryside and nature – what a shame that it’s ruined by these evil cowards killing for fun. They don’t even have the excuse that they eat what they shoot. Don’t give them the name “hunters”. They are sick sadists and need psychiatric treatment for their disease.

England: More Pig Abuse – New Undercover Investigation Reveals Shocking Brutality at East Anglian Pig Co.

Please click on this link to see the video footage and photo stills from the investigation:

WARNING  – EXTREME ANIMAL CRUELTY SHOWN.

http://animalequality.net/news/383/new-undercover-investigation-reveals-shocking-brutality-east-anglian-pig-co

New undercover investigation reveals shocking brutality at East Anglian Pig Co.
Undercover investigation reveals shocking brutality 
exposing leading supermarket supplier in the UK
 
A new Animal Equality undercover investigation exposes the British Pig Industry again, revealing shocking brutality 
at East Anglian Pig Company (EAP), which is the third largest pork producer and leading supermarket supplier in the UK.

An undercover investigator worked at two different sites for a total of 29 days:

Little Thorns Weaner Unit:
This is a weaner unit, with approximately 8,000 to 10,000 pigs on site. At Little Thorns, the pigs were bred outdoors in six sheds for a period of 6 to 8 weeks, before being sent to the finishing units.

Didlington, The Piggery:
This is a breeding unit, with 3,000 pigs on site and over 700 female pigs. The pigs are raised outdoors, and fattened indoors. Over 300 pigs are sent to the slaughterhouse from this facility each week.

Animal Equality proves once again that, regardless of whether a farm is labeled as being ‘higher welfare’, ‘Quality Assured’ or monitored by the RSPCA, there exists pain, suffering and exploitation on a huge scale.

Animal Equality’s investigation has received statements of support from leading international experts, including a renowned British veterinarian, Professors and animal behaviourists.

Sickly piglets were killed by blunt force trauma. These animals were grasped by their hind limbs and brutally whipped head-first multiple times against a hard surface. In some instances, whereby the animals did not die following the blunt force head trauma, a worker tried to suffocate the piglets by placing his hand on the animal’s muzzle and then placing his foot over the throat.
 
Extreme confinement within sow stalls and farrowing crates resulted in the pigs being subject to extreme movement restrictions, as they were unable to turn around.
 
Stereotypies were readily observed. Female pigs were frequently observed bar-biting, and one pig demonstrated excessive swaying behaviour.
 
Pigs appeared to suffer significant injuries. Deep abrasions were evident on the backs of some individuals, and several piglets were lame or paraplegic, probably as a result of spinal trauma.
 
Piglets appeared to have abrasions and ulcerative lesions on their joints. Such wounds can lead to secondary infections as a result of bacterial and ammonia contamination from the environment, further perpetuating the condition.
 
Several dead piglets were present in the farrowing crates, most likely the result of crushing from the sow.
 
Piglets were beaten in the head with an iron bar, and an adult lame pig was shown with a twine muzzle over the snout. The animal was struggling and clearly suffering.
 
Several amputated tail segments were observed, most likely as a result of tail docking. Tail docking in commercial piggery units is normally performed on young piglets without the use of anesthetic and can be a highly painful procedure.
 
Workers moved adult pigs by kicking them and one female pig was repeatedly slapped and punched across her sensitive muzzle and head.
 
Weaners were thrown aggressively around by their fragile limbs.
 
A worker grabbed an adult pig by his tail for restraint whilst cutting and hacking the caudal thigh. The animal was not afforded any sedation or anesthesia.

INVOLVED SUPERMARKETS AND BRANDS
• The East Anglian Pig Company is owned by Cranswick Plc – a leading UK food supplier that manufactures and supplies products to the food service sector, food producers and grocery retailers within the UK, such as

Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, The Cooperative Food, Waitrose and ASDA.

• The company produces a range of products, its brands include Jamie Oliver, Weight Watchers, Richard Woodall, The Black Farmer, Red Lion Foods, Reggae Reggae, Simply Sausages and Yorkshire Baker.
• Cranswick Pork is also used to make famous dishes served in McDonald’s such as the Sausage & Egg McMuffin. Cranswick had been named supplier of the year at the OSI McDonald’s Awards on 4th April 2011.
 
Source:
Please visit: http://www.britishporkindustry.co.uk/

Mauritius: More Than 20,000 PET and Stray Dogs Killed Anually by the Mauritian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ! – Everyone Agrees That Sterilisation Would Solve Population Problems; but the Government Will Not Consider It.

SO NOW WE WILL INFORM THE WORLD OF WHAT IS GOING ON.

Photo – Roger Allen / North Downs Picture Agency

To see all the photographs associated with this article, please click on the following link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127922/The-dogs-death-row-paradise-One-English-womans-battle-holiday-island-cruelly-kills-thousands-pet-dogs-year.html#ixzz1rl7AVmeD
 
The dogs on death row in paradise: One English woman’s battle to take on a holiday island which cruelly kills thousands of pet dogs a year

More than 20,000 pet and stray dogs are brutally slayed annually in Mauritius
Undercover investigation after alarm raised by the British-based charity

Up to 80 per cent are much-loved pets snatched from doorsteps
Pound can only be described as a concentration camp for dogs
By Jane Fryer and Allan Hall

The dog is flat on his back, trussed up with a rough rope, his paws scrabbling frantically in the air as a man in a red baseball cap rams a needle deep into his heart.  There is one last desperate struggle then a monstrous howl that rips through the muggy tropical morning, startling nearby market traders and silencing the birds.
When the howl splutters into a whimper, the dog is dragged and kicked into a kennel to die alongside three others. It is a slow and painful death, the result of a botched lethal injection by a canine-killing squad.

Eighty per cent of the dogs caught and killed are pet dogs not strays
 
And it takes place in the so-called tropical paradise of Mauritius — the palm-fringed holiday destination of more than 200,000 Britons each year.

Away from the white, gleaming beaches — where the sea is impossibly blue and tourists sip cocktails while lazing on luxury sunbeds — more than 20,000 pet and stray dogs are slayed annually in this sickening way.

These horrific images of the slaughter were taken during an undercover investigation by the Mail after the alarm was raised by the British-based charity International Animal Rescue.

The Mauritian government claims it is a humane way of controlling the island’s stray dog population, but it is neither humane nor honest.

Some of the animals are strays but many more — up to 80 per cent — are much-loved pets that have been snatched from their doorsteps, with collars and security tags clearly marking their addresses.
They are captured as part of a ‘clean-up’ campaign, despite pleas from animal welfare organisations across the world.

And they are killed by an organisation with a name so ironic it would be laughable it wasn’t true — the Mauritian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Kitted out in jaunty red caps and wielding giant fishing nets, MSPCA dog-catchers snatch animals wherever they see them — sleeping on street corners, lingering in alleys or lazing on their own doorsteps.
They are scooped up and hurled into cages in the back of roasting-hot vans where they remain — often bleeding and with broken bones — while the officers continue their rounds.

Their destination is a pound that can only be described as a concentration camp for dogs.
MSPCA personnel march around in heavy boots, brandishing sharp metal rods to punish disobedient animals. In the filthy concrete cages, most of the dogs shrink to the back, shivering and terrified.
 
Others edge forward, hopeful and trusting, unable to understand their predicament.
The worst corner is the puppy cage — rusty, squalid with faeces, and utterly desolate.
Only animals with owners have any hope, and even then it is slim. If residents suspect their pet has been snatched by the MSPCA, they can come to the pound and pay a ransom to rescue it. But the charge is £30, which is beyond the reach of most people, as the average worker earns less than £60 a month.
 
Nearly all the dogs spend three days in the cages before a lethal injection and a slow, painful death.
The still-warm bodies are hurled into a mass open grave in a stretch of wasteland. Clumps of fur, tails and ears are visible in the red soil. Skulls and bones create splashes of white.
The MSPCA insists only stray dogs are exterminated but this is a lie.

The truth is that the organisation has a quota of more than 100 stray dogs to capture every day in a bid to reduce the island’s estimated 200,000 population.

And officers will happily take pets to achieve this figure.
 
British woman Alicia Browne can testify to this, after her two dogs were snatched while she was walking them.
 
Alicia, who is staying in Mauritius for nine months to visit a friend, adopted two stray dogs — whom she called Mira and Wanda — on the waterfront near Riv du Rempart in the north-east.

She recalls: ‘I was with them on the beach in December, throwing sticks, just having a nice day, when these two guys ran down with their nets and threw them over Mira and Wanda.
‘I screamed, “What are you doing! These are my dogs!” Mira and Wanda could not have been more than 4ft away from me. But one of the dog-catchers said I was breaking the law: because they weren’t on a leash, they were strays, and that was that.’
 
Alicia, from Redhill, Surrey, adds: ‘I was in tears and ran after them and saw them dumped in the van like trash. Mira’s leg was cut — you can see the scars and she has a limp now.  ‘I followed the van in my car for the rest of the morning while the men scooped up pet after pet then went to the pound where they were unloaded.
‘I had to pay to get my dogs back. Wanda will never be the same again — she was severely traumatised by the experience.’
Jacqueline Woodridge, a British expat living in Mauritius, lost her pet dog in January and went to the Port Louis MSPCA compound to try to find him.

Her search was unsuccessful — and shocking. She said: ‘What I saw was horrific. There were so many beautiful dogs, many, many with collars, including puppies, squeezed into dirty kennel chambers covered with urine and faeces.
 
‘They were trembling, whining, and terrified. There was just one bowl of bread and water in each kennel.’
While the population of strays is undoubtedly large and growing, the dogs are not dangerous: there is no rabies on Mauritius, and the strays shun human contact.

Local and international vets agree that sterilisation would stem the problem — indeed, three years ago French actress Brigitte Bardot offered to pay for a mass sterilisation for all the island’s strays. But the government will not consider it.
 
Yesterday, phone calls to the MSPCA were not returned. German vet Birgit Wellmann, who had to rescue her own dog from a pound, said: Sterilisation is the way forward but no one will listen. It is heartbreaking.’
She claims people on the island won’t criticise the MSPCA for fear of veiled retribution. Foreigners worry about losing residency and work permits, and locals are vulnerable to arrest if they defame the government.
Authorities say the strays are an eyesore and jeopardise the lucrative tourism trade. But as one European vet who used to work on the island points out: ‘For most tourists, these dogs are less dangerous than sunburn.’

 *** ACTION ***  You may wish to send your – of course: polite – comments on this issue to the following:
 
Prime Minister The Honourable Navinchandra Ramgoolam
Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Ministry of Tourism and Leisure and External Communications
 
Mail: portaladmin@mail.gov.mu ; menv@mail.gov.mu ; moa-headoffice@mail.gov.mu ; mtou@mail.gov.mu ; pmo@mail.gov.mu 
 
And as well, CC, to Mauritian Tourism representations worldwide (“Authorities say the strays are an eyesore and jeopardise the lucrative tourism trade”)
 
ilemaurice@interfacetourism.com ; carolinel@hillsbalfour.com ; m.tocchetti@aigo.it ; mauritius@aviareps.com ; info@prw.ch ; mtpaindia@tracrep.com ; robolgogiani@aviareps.com ; yvette@bairds.co.za ; GVaca@aviareps.com ; personal@thomascookag.com
 
And, most importantly, to the below mentioned MSPCA (“And they are killed by an organisation with a name so ironic it would be laughable it wasn’t true — the Mauritian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.”)
 
http://www.mspca-mu.org/index.php?option=com_aicontactsafe&sTask=message&r_id=823241055&task=display&Itemid=49&pf=1&lang=en
 
 
Embassies:
 
Of Mauritius to the US: mauritius.embassy@verizon.net
 
Other locations:
 
High Commission of Mauritius in Canberra, Australia – E-mail: mauritius@cyberone.com.au
Embassy of Mauritius in Beijing, China – E-mail: mebj@public.bta.net.cn 
Embassy of Mauritius in Berlin, Germany – E-mail: mu.embln.3@t-online.de
Embassy of Mauritius in Cairo, Egypt – E-mail: embamaur@thewayout.net
Embassy of Mauritius in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 4.  E-mail: mmaddis@telecom.net.et
Embassy of Mauritius in Paris, France – E-mail: ambassade.maurice@online.fr
Consulate of Mauritius in Mumbai, India – E-mail: consul@bom3vsnl.net.in
High Commission of Mauritius in New Delhi, India – E-mail: mhcnd@bol.net.in
Consulate of Mauritius in Rome, Italy – E-mail: consmaur@libero.it
High Commission of Mauritius in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – E-mail: maur@tm.net.my
Embassy of Mauritius in Antananarivo, Madagascar – E-mail: memad@dts.mg
High Commission of Mauritius in Maputo, Mozambique – E-mail: mhcmoz@virconn.com
High Commission of Mauritius in Islamabad, Pakistan – E-mail: mauripak@isb.comsats.net.pk
High Commission of Mauritius in Pretoria, South Africa – E-mail: mhcpta@mweb.co.za
Permanent Mission of Mauritius in Geneva, Switzerland – E-mail: mission.mauritius@ties.itu.int
 
Representations of other countries to Mauritius:

London website link (full contact details):    http://mauritius.embassyhomepage.com/
 
High Commission of India in Port Louis, Mauritius – E-mail: hicom.ss@intnet.mu, hicomdhc@intnet.mu
High Commission of The United Kingdom in Port Louis, Mauritius – E-mail: bhc@intnet.mu

 
 
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