Detained successful Crete former vice politician for case of the decease of a newborn kitten. He himself claims that the carnal was already dead.
IN Heraklion A 77-year-old erstwhile lawman politician was detained connected charges of cruelty and decease of a newborn kitten. The erstwhile municipal authoritative himself denies the accusations and claims that the carnal was already dead.
According to patris.grIn the evening May 16 A 29-year-old woman went to the constabulary station and reported the erstwhile municipal leader, accusing him of sidesplitting a stray animal. After the statement, constabulary officers detained the man.
The story received wide resonance aft the work of the ιστοσελίδα zoosos.grwhich specializes successful carnal welfare topics. According to him, we are talking astir a newborn kitten, which was brought by a stray cat. The animal, according to eyewitnesses, was successful an country where section residents fed cats.
In work zoosos.gr it is alleged that (according to witnesses) the accused grabbed the kitten, treated it cruelly, and then threw it into the trash can. Due to the severity of the actions described, the lawsuit caused a strong nationalist reaction.
According to the aforesaid source, at slightest two eyewitnesses responded to the incidental and went to the policeto study what happened. The work besides states that the accused then took the assemblage of the carnal and, according to the applicants, hid it. He aboriginal allegedly stated that helium did not retrieve where helium threw it.
The lawsuit reportedly took spot successful the metropolis Heraklionnear the intersection of the avenue Papanastasiou and streets Paraskevopoulou. It is alleged that the movements of the accused aft 14:30 On May 16, they could person been caught connected surveillance cameras of adjacent stores.
The accused denies everything
Former municipal authoritative who, according to Greek media, antecedently served arsenic vice politician successful the municipality Herakliondenies the charges. After his arrest, helium instantly contacted his lawyer.
According to accusation patris.gra 77-year-old antheral said that when helium recovered the kitten, it was already dead. According to him, helium picked up the carnal to try to assistance it, but rapidly realized that it was dead, aft which helium took it to the trash can.
According to zoosos.grthe accused gave grounds to the investigator. Since the substance is considered arsenic felonyhe recovered himself under criminal prosecutionbut was released under restrictive conditions. A trial day is present expected to beryllium set.
Panhellenic Federation of Animal Protection and Environmental Organizations intends to support the prosecution. In Greece, cruelty to animals successful caller years has progressively go not lone a topic of outrage connected κοινωνικά networks, but besides transgression cases that extremity successful existent fines and agelong situation sentences.
PS Courts and transgression cases against animal cruelty walk rapidly and efficiently, unlike peoplefor which judges and constabulary often bash not person capable time.
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