Animal rights activists' action has ended with the conflict with
fleecers.
August 13, 2006, Moscow Region (settlement Tomilino) - Action against
mobile zoos has passed there. Animal rights activists have approached
to open-air cages of the menagerie placed near the local House of
culture. They have quickly got sprays with an aerosol paint and have
written slogans on external walls of open-air cages: "The menagerie is
prison for animals!", "NOT - to cruelty!", "Freedom to animals!" and
others.
Then they have opened banners "NOT - to cruelty!" and "Close the
prison!", opposite to the entrance of menagerie, have put on a
megaphone and started to scan slogans. Almost at once three drunkers
from those who watches a mobile zoo appeared and tried to stop the
action, and also to remove the banner which has been hung out on the
menagerie's car. But they did not manage it and defenders of animals
came closely to the entrance of the menagerie. They were scanning
slogans and put on signal fires. Activist with a megaphone has
approached to cash department and has started to scan slogans in a
window. Someone sitting inside tried to push away a megaphone, but the
loud siren has been turned on instead if that.
The action has come to the end with the conflict between workers of a
menagerie and defenders of animals. One of activists has crossed by
aerosol paint tariffs for visiting of prison for animals and has risen
at a step in attempt to write a word "prison". "Security guards" of a
menagerie tried to prevent it, but failed. The activist has added a
word "prison", but one of heads of the "pleasure" enterprise here has
approached to him, seized and start threatened with an adjustable
spanner which was in his hands. For the reason of self-defense one of
participants of the action has applied pepper gas to neutralize
attacked man.
The mobile menagerie has appeared in this area recently. Before, in
March, defenders of animals observed it in other area. It has wild
animals for entertainment of public (young foxes, wolves, tigers,
leopards, bears, lions, etc.). Animals all year round are in tiny
cages, they are fed by waste, and when it cold they are so freezing,
that even get injures. To confirm it there is a videorecording which
has been shot by participants of the Alliance for Animal Rights (AAR):
http://www.animalrights.ru/index.html?cmd[147]=x-150-8063 .
This time the AAR became to known about a site of the same menagerie
from e-mail message sent by parents of the three-years old child who
were indignant with it and asked defenders of animals for help.
Activists of AAR by doing the action wish to draw as much as possible
attention to this problem and to show those who earns money on
sufferings of animals, that they will bear responsibility for it. As to
occurrence of similar menageries - the majority of them are a
by-product of circuses: when "actors" become old and become a burden
for their trainers, they get rid in a such way - they send animals to a
concentration camp on wheels, where "ex-actors" are waiting in
tortures for their sad end.
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Photo from action:
http://www.animalrights.ru/index.html?cmd[147]=x-150-9178
Video: http://ru.indymedia.org/usermedia/video/11/tomilino.mpg
Additional information in russian language: http://AnimalRights.ru
