Continued Animal Abuse in Greece. Greek Authorities Refuse To Do Anything!

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Marijo Gillis

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Friday,

February 06, 2004 4:49 PM

 

 

 

PLEASE, please CROSS POST, as yet another heartbreaking Greek

Update.

 

 

 

 

THOUGHTS from someone in ATHENS, GREECE to the CIVILIZED WORLD!

 

 

 

 

 

Press Release

 

Athens, Greece

24.01.04

On Wednesday,

January 21, 2004 GREEK TV

viewers were horrified upon seeing the morning program of ERT 3 “Ç ¶ëëç ÌÝñá» (The

Other Day) which featured the GOD awful

“Animal Shelter of Northern Greece”, at Peraia, Thessaloniki. At this ‘exclusive’

shelter for abandoned and abused animals, amidst animal feces and carcasses, one saw emaciated

dogs, most with appalling skin diseases, and maggot crawling in open wounds.

 

Viewers

saw the poor dogs fighting over a stale, filthy loaf of bread, while little paraplegic and blind souls desperate

and terrified, dragged themselves in front of frightened puppies and dogs

suffering in the last stages of Leishmaniasis, a horrifying disease, causing

intolerable suffering. Oh, by the way, in the past, Cannibalization has also been a featured item for viewing

audiences.

 

For the thousandth time, TV

viewers were witnessing the blatant violation of all animal protection laws by

‘shelters’ and the indifference of the Greek state. What is

the point of legislation? Can someone tell us???

True to form, despite this documented

evidence of an Animal Auschwitz, the Greek government remains indifferent

and mired down in inertia and perhaps plain, old, unadulterated inhumanity.

(Let us bring up once more, the ahem, mysterious

disappearance of thousands of abandoned dogs as the City of Athens

prepares for the 2004 Olympic Games!and the magical disappearance of their

carcasses.)

A guest featured on the morning program

was Mr. Patikas, Director of the Veterinary Directorate of Thessaloniki, who

constantly referred to the “notorious” new law, gazetted in July

2003 under No. 3170 entitled “Companion Animals, stray companion animals and

other provisions”, without even once whispering the

words “companion animals and sentient beings”, and also withholding

the very pertinent fact that he represents the responsible body for the

implementation of the new law!

The same Mr. Patikas, in October 2003,

after receipt of official complaints was forced to inspect the above mentioned

shelter and concluded that everything was perfectly in order! Perhaps

this gentleman is missing a chromosome?

Furthermore, throughout the duration of

the program, Mr Patikas failed to explain how, after only two and a half

months, the disgusting situation which the camera was revealing shot-by-shot,

had developed. Naturally, he did not see fit to propose immediate

intervention by the authorities to relieve the animals’ suffering,

although the health and welfare of animals is his

responsibility. Needless to say, he did not inform viewers where the dead

animals were buried!

It would seem that in Greece, laws are voted in parliament to justify the existence

and salaries of the 300 MP’s; thus law 3170 was

passed – full of promise - but without the slightest infrastructure for its

implementation. Yet another law

to seduce and mislead and destined for the rat eaten files of the House of

Parliament, as is the travesty of a law, whose provision

defines that the state reply within 15 days to a citizen’s written

request. Otherwise a certain concerned party would have received a reply

to her letter of September 4, 2003 in which she complained about the

reprehensibleg conditions in the above shelter. " Concerned party "

addressed her letter of complaint to Prime Minister Simitis, Agriculture

Minister, Drys, New Democracy Party Chairman Karamanlis,

Agriculture Deputy Minister Hadjimichalis, Prefect of Thessaloniki

MPsomiades, and Director of Vet Directorate Thessaloniki Patikas, Mayor

of Peraia Mantzari, Mayor of Corfu . Mastoras, Director of Vet Directorate

Corfu and the Prefect of Corfu Machmari..

If the Fathers of the Nation are not

disturbed when, through their own failings, Europe considers us barbarians,

rude and arrogant Balkans, they should not be disturbed at the boycott of the Olympic Games and the influx

of hooligan tourists at the summer resorts.

A call a " spade a spade " Greek

animal rights organization, " run by a phenominal Greek, raised abroad, is

waiting to see whether the famous Greek

‘filotimo’

(reciprocal duty to honour) exists…..Because if it

does, then every member of the Pan Hellenic Veterinary Association should

undertake without charge, blood testing, treatment and neutering of the animals

at the ‘Shelter for Strays Northern Greece’, and this is the

minimum they should undertake in view of the promises made at their meeting in

2000. As for the Veterinary

School of the University of Thessaloniki, it should always actively contribute

towards relieving the plight of the stray animals.

In 2004, the year of

‘Volunteering’, the government should encourage in every possible

way those distinguished veterinary surgeons of the European Union (amidst

them, professors of renowned universities) who offer their services free

of charge throughout the country, to neuter and treat desperately sick stray

animals. On the contrary, with its indescribably idiotic bureaucracy, the

government is, indirectly, ensuring that no such help shall be available to the

strays, ever. God help the animals of Greece

 

 

 

 

 

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