AR-News: (UK) I'll sue Spanish for donkey cruelty, says animal lover

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By David Harrison
(Filed: 29/02/2004) 

A British animal welfare campaigner intends to take a Spanish village to 
court for subjecting a donkey to horrific abuse at an annual festival.
Paul Svendsen, who runs the 400-acre Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth, Devon, 
said he was sickened by the way the animal was pushed, pulled and kicked around 
by a drunken mob last week while being ridden by the village's heaviest man.
 
The donkey at this year's Villanueva de la Vera festival
Mr Svendsen plans to use new laws introduced in Spain last year that give 
individuals the right to take a private action against anybody causing physical 
or mental cruelty to animals. The action will be taken against the mayor of 
Villanueva de la Vera in Extremadura, a village of about 2,000 people about 100 
miles west of Madrid.









full story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/29/ndonk29.xml&sS
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