REPORTS OF HANGINGS OF GALGOS

presumed perpetrator reported by the SEPRONA police force 

The National association for the protection and welfare for animals  (ANPBA), made an important step forward regarding the report filed  of two hanged galgos in a piece of land in the province of Murcia last August. 

In many parts of Spain there is a horrific tradition of hanging galgos when they are no longer useful to their owners and only recently has it been possible to  legally persue these happenings. 

There is another tradition in Spain which is to not report cruelty inflicted upon animals since this takes time, courage and the will to confront the passiveness and the delay with which the authorities react before these happenings. Even so, Spain carries on evolving and there is an increasing number of people willing to break this vicious circle: thanks to ANPBA, to the  SEPRONA police agents and to all the people who don't need a reason to act.  Let's hope that the horrible way in which these two galgos die don't go unseen by the law and that increasingly more 'criminals' receive the punishment they deserve, for the animals' sake and of those people around them.  

Translation by Marga Trébol

Greyhound hangings in Murcia

Civil guard identifies and reports presumed perpetrator of the hanging of 2 greyhounds in the surroundings of Cehegín (Murcia)

 A formal complaint was filed by ANPBA to SEPRONA

After knowing about the hanging of 2 greyhounds in a property amongst Bullas and Cehegín, the 5^th of August 2005, the National Association on behalf of Protection and welfare of Nature (ANPBA) filed an administrative complaint against the Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) of the CIVIL GUARD, enclosing graphic documentation. ANPBA required starting “an official investigation in order to identify the crime perpetrators so as to punish them according to the legal planned law”

 For further information about the legal complaint, go to “comunicado de prensa” nº4, of August the 3rd, which includes PHOTOGRAPHIES:

ANPBA-agosto05     Let's Stop Cruelty to Animals

Warning!: extremely graphic and disturbing pictures

LAW PRINCIPLES:

ANPBA appealed the law: Ley Orgánica 15/2003, by which the law: Ley Orgánica 10/1999 of the Spanish penal code was modified. This one establishes that: “Those who ill-treat domestic animals with ferocity and unjustified behaviour, causing their death or severe physical harm, will be punished with imprisonment from 3 months up to one year. (Art. 337)  

Concerning the current legality applicable in the region of Murcia, the law:  10/1990 of protection and defence of domestic animals, bans “animal ill-treatment or the practise of any unjustified harm or suffering towards them” (art.2) it is considered as serious infringement “ill-treatment or physical attacks to animals” (art 24.3c), under fine punishment up to 15.000€

CIVIL GUARD PROCEEDING:

COMPLAINT TO THE JURISDICTION COURT OF CARAVACA

We have legally received signed note from the sergeant in charge of the SEPRONA team. C.C.M. (enclosed), in which we are informed, related to the complaint made by ANPBA, that: after having made inquiries to identify the presumed perpetrator, the information was addressed through official report number 53/05, to the Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia) jurisdiction court.

Civil Guard always keeps private –names and data- of any person identified and denounced, having recourse to established legal terms about data protection. They only communicate to the person who reports the crime occurred. However, a penal complaint is not transferred to the legal court until the identity of the presumed perpetrator is not determined. This has already happened and takes shape in the previous steps done by SEPRONA “focused to find out the real responsible”, mentioned in the official report, and whose content is as follows:

Addressee: National Association for Protection and Wellbeing of Animals (ANPBA) 

On performance of the established on article 35.1 of the Law of legal rules of public administration and following the administrative proceeding, I hereby inform that the complaint reported by V., dated 5^th of August, based on the knowledge of two hanged greyhounds in the district of Cehegín (Murcia), once done the appropriate steps to find out the presumed perpetrator, is transferred by report nº 53/05, to the preliminary court on duty of the Guardia de Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia)

The major sergeant of the SEPRONA team

Signed: C.C.M.

EVALUATION

Alfonso Chillerón, president of the ANPBA, has stated: “We value in the most positive way, the behaviour of SEPRONA, and the interest showed in the resolution of the case. Now, ANPBA will turn up in the penal cause and will request the maximum possible punishment for the presumed perpetrator of these abominable crimes against the animals. Penal Code contemplates penalties up to one year of imprisonment

 -Press Department.