Here are two reports about transportation of dogs from Spain to Italy. These are Internet translations from Spanish to English.
Younes Nachett
18/12/2011 00:21
The Seprona, the Civil Guard group created to ensure compliance with regulations tending to the conservation of nature and environment, has just concluded an investigation which practically demonstrates the existence of a vast network dedicated, among other necessities, trafficking of animals for sometimes illegal, sometimes bordering on illegality, but in any case, and despicable ethics in which the victims, hundreds of dogs, even thousands, suffering a continuous abuse. research is now in the hands the Court of Instruction No. 2 of El Puerto de Santa María, with support from the Office of Environment, and three defendants in court, while 11 people are awaiting the police complaint, as reflected in the last ampliatoria the crowded presented by Seprona, allocated by court order. Research by members of Cadiz Seprona just let doubt and what began with the interception of a rental van in which they were transported in appalling conditions and primers counterfeit veterinary, thirty dogs, became the tip of an iceberg under which lies a complex international reach, always suspected,
researchers and pharmaceutical companies based in Italy. Nine July this year about is concluded. Thermometers mark 42 degrees.The clocks say it is 11 o’clock. As the crowded van rental Atesa reaches C.(Acronym), a kennel from Chiclana, and there charged more than two dozen animals. At 1430 hours leave for El Puerto de Santa Maria, a kennel called (only short) LL unload some dogs and the van back to their departure at 16.30.The thermometer marked 43 degrees. Inside the vehicle, crammed 26 dogs, just in the rear cargo without venting. Their destination: The Association V.(Acronym) of Italy. Although the load never reach its destination because a group of Seprona stopped the van just outside LL agents charged the driver of the vehicle, once transferred to headquarters, for the crime of animal abuse, and days later, after some initial investigations, two veterinary forgery, since the primers were forged with some chips discharged. dogs were taken to the shelter dog Kimba, in Pago del Humo, in Chiclana.
They are still there. Indeed, according to sources of confidence, the Seprona made contact with the Association V, where the dogs were intended to communicate that they were being held and ask the reason for the move. V. were said to give them up for adoption and it was a simple matter of paperwork. The Association was submitted data from 26 people who apparently were taking the animals. But agents, after a while, they saw that the Italian Association website still advertised these dogs for adoption and asked for money for maintenance … but the animals were confiscated and are in Chiclana. Returning to operating at Seprona members were surprised a detail. One of the dogs, with a pronounced tumor, had hung in his cage a small sign with an address, a telephone and a name: Marina G. are his initials, although the full name appeared.
According to sources close to the investigation, the cartel tried to make it disappear, presumably, the driver, which in turn was to be granted even more importance.Conducted a consultation, Marina G, was the name of an Italian woman director of a Cancer Research Center in the Veneto area. A dog with veterinary primer false and with a tumor and a cancer research center? The Seprona began to fit puzzle pieces that exceeded the crime of animal trafficking and abuse thereof.
According to a report, attached to the measures presented in court and conducted by Italian criminologists refuted the ‘zoomafia’ moves more than 500 million euros per year in the transalpine country. ? international Plot? But back to the facts. The officials responsible for the investigation uncovered a host of evidence and clues that point to an international plot and, according to some early estimates, could lead since 2007 taking a thousand dogs a month, only Spanish kennels. Act by the alleged false intention of giving them up for adoption in Italy through the organization V, who runs two kennels in Vicenza.
Researchers found that in the province of Cadiz, came every fortnight a rental van. Collected in different municipalities dogs, dogs arrived from Rota, Jerez, Chiclana, Puerto Real, El Puerto de Santa María, the work of dealing boarding kennels C. (Chiclana) and LL (El Puerto). From Cadiz, the van was on a return trip with a stay in Barcelona, where he suffered with animal crossings over 22 hours, no water, no light, barely ventilation … but even worse awaited them.
Though there are suspicions of payments, sources close to the investigation said they are made by hand, not record. Seprona also arrested in 2010 a truck full of dogs, about 60, which was intended Claudia C., V. Association.Furthermore, the Seprona also became aware of a woman, Alexia DB, who works for a leading Italian pharmaceutical group, one of the most charged in Europe, was allegedly responsible for the same system moved a hundred dogs.Alexia later discovered that also maintains relationships with Claudia C., V. Association . A seven euros per dog and day party business that is based in Italy, the country in which the sacrifice of dogs is prohibited, kennels receive a grant of 7 euros per day per animal … do accounts and see pictures of some of these kennels Veneto area, but the emergence of pharmaceutical companies and research institutes, to suspect that the fate of these dogs still holds for more nasty surprises.
Among those indicted policing, that court, there are 14 people, including members V. Association and the residence of El Puerto L. L, and both groups as legal entities. Apparently the court in this county had the move to close the crowded but view the documentation, especially in the crowded last ampliatoria Seprona, is now waiting to be informed of the charges, including three officers and and an extension of the proceedings filed by the Cadiz Seprona to make research nationwide, as there are many indications which suggest the presence of an Italian criminal organization with tentacles in several countries. Obviously, the driver . whose name siglasG answered.
A., in addition to the charge of mistreatment, he imposed various administrative sanctions for violations of the rules on animal and epizoopias because dogs were not spayed and or neutered, and the accused had made a required course to move animals and other issues of an administrative … … But sources close to the investigation insist there is evidence to believe that the ‘zoomafia’ acts in the province for many years, so ask for a larger research and beyond the limits of the province. An example.
The December 2010 report of the Society for the Protection of Animals and Plants of Álava ‘Vicky Moore’ on massive traffic Dogs warned in its conclusions that “protecting themselves complain of organizations acting fraudulently, issuing false documents and concealing important data (age, serious, true origin of animals …) … For years, veterinarians Germans, Swedes … are warning of the existence of animal welfare groups of doubtful character, for which the Spanish trade stray dogs is very helpful, and the supposed “saving animals” is only offered questionable. ” the report adds that “the issue is to discover these shady practices that hide under the guise of protection. The problem is compounded because they export are abandoned animals that no one will be interested in their fate and usually there is no official record of their existence in the host country. ” And is that “exports of dogs and cats of our 17 communities autonomous to other European countries are massive, in industrial quantities “.
Laboratories, tanneries and slaughterhouses down the road are countless reports and articles about the zoomafia in the world, and especially in Italy. Among all these reports noted for example, that each year presents the Humane League on Zoomafia Italy. In www.guiadog.com relates how “in Italy, Mafia coffers admitted each year, in the chapter on dog fighting, about 750 million euros, ie almost 125,000 million pesetas.” These are figures of the report Zoomafia 2001.
Moreover, the European Parliament has already come this problem. Christian Muscardini (PPE) conducted a question to the Commission on the smuggling of Italian dogs. In his argument says that “rough estimates speak of a business of 200 million euros, but the latest report Zoomafia assesses it at least 500.
It is the huge turnover that moves around is stray dogs from kennels or masked by many false adoptions …. thousands of dogs and cats leave for northern Europe from Italy … run by organized crime, but also from Spain, Greece and Turkey.The preferred destination is Germany, where they arrive, apparently, from 250,000 to 400,000 dogs a year to be distributed across 32 collection points, for the rest of Europe.
Placement in a dog pound is thus the starting point for the diversion of animal experimentation labs, tanneries use their skin or in the worst case, slaughterhouses that become food for their peers. And if the living conditions of the kennels are not the best, the books are even worse, since animals are packed into boxes, malnourished and often drugged. “
http://andaluciainformacion.es/portada/?a=206340&i=1&f=0
http://andaluciainformacion.es/portada/?a=206340&i=1&f=0
A life caught between sacrifice and overcrowding
A lot of homeless dogs are sent outside our borders • Civil Guard investigates transportation and destination, mainly to Italy
MILA ALARCÓN / CADIZ | UPDATED 25/07/2011 – 10:40
Numerous festivals and Spanish traditions in which animals are used: the famous Toro de la Vega, the donkey that is pulled from a belfry in Cazalilla (Jaén), or the famous bullfights. But is there any party involved in dogs?. Obviously not, but this is one of the reasons that the Italian association aims Vita, A zampa per la Spagna, which has been receiving truckloads of dogs from Spain.
On July 9 2011 Civil Guard officers Seprona (Proteccción Service to Nature) stopped a van in which there were 26 dogs bound for this association, namely Milan, in northern Italy.Controversy arises when Civil Guard officers opened the back of the van and check the state in which the animals were to take a trip of 22 hours: “The dogs were in cages, one above the other, like a mountain” Orellana indicates Nieves, president of the Society for the Protection of Animals and Plants of Cadiz. “Those left out if they could breathe, but imagine how would those in the middle of the mountain and in the back of the van,” said Orellana.
No animals had water and the vehicle, a rented van, inappropriate to transport animals had no ventilation. These dogs were heading to northern Italy, although Seprona aware that these trips are also other countries.
At this point the question arises why do so many dogs shipments outside our country. Though the alarm tripped following this trip, shipments of animals to other countries have been applied for two years ago, in which even has come to send vans to 80 animals from different parts of the country: “I could not tell exactly from which provinces, but I can say they are safe Valencia, Sevilla, Badajoz and Cadiz” says José María, Seprona Sgt. Find out what is the fate of these animals outside the borders of our country is what tries this Civil Guard unit that holds open an investigation.
Nevertheless, the question remains unanswered, because nobody really knows what it wants animals in Italy. Mainly the two options are being considered. The first is the most obvious. This Italian association saves dogs that are inevitably destined to die in our country. Spain is at the top of the European list in the abandonment of animals. Last year 109,074 dogs were collected, 16,780 of them in Andalusia. These dogs are sent to animal shelters, where they will be cared for until they are adopted, or go to the pound, where after 15 days unclaimed become sacrificed. “Currently the protectors and kennels are overcrowded” says José María.
In Italy there is the opposite situation, since in 2003 a law was passed prohibiting the sacrifice. So this Italian association aims to save these animals that are doomed to die in Spain giving them up for adoption. Another option points to money. “As these countries is prohibited to kill animals, receiving aid protective” Orellana said. The business goes round, as the protective and Spanish kennels give those dogs that can not be made responsible. So the equation is simple: the more animals possess protective shelter or, more money and receive aid. Nevertheless, she says Sergeant José María, the Civil Guard not only tries to learn the fate of these animals, “since a Once you pass our borders we can not do anything.
“The aim above all is the correct transport of these animals.Meet standards set out in the decree of the European Union, which includes measures for the transport of animals as temperature control systems or water for journeys over 8 hours.Fortunately the dogs that were seized by the Civil Guard are now in good condition, receiving the necessary care in the SPCA and Plant Cadiz, named after Kimba because one of the first animals that received was a lioness named and abandoned by a circus.
In Spain there is still a long way to go in terms of animal rights. According to Orellana, a law prohibiting the sacrifice is not feasible in Spain. She and José María recognize and protective kennels are overflowing and beyond their limits. This leads to the conclusion that the only way out for many kennels is the sacrifice of animals.
http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/provincia/1028224/una/vida/atrapados/entre/sacrificio/y/hacinamiento.html
http://www.canalsur.es/portal_rtva/web/noticia/id/160466/portada/la_guardia_civil_investiga_el_traslado_de_centenares_de_perros_a_italia_desde_cadiz
