They actually trust: those weasels who built their underground colony many years ago in a meadow near Gerasdorf near Vienna. It’s not just an attraction for locals; the animals have long lost their fear of humans. However, this proved to be fatal for many people when a wagon station stopped near or on their colony.
Dead animals on the side of the road, the entrances to their underground tunnel system blocked, cars driving through the pasture destroying the observation hills that the animals had built with great difficulty: a wave of outrage spread across social networks when it was reported that a traveling people had met with more than 50 teams and set up camp on the famous meadow.
The legal situation makes immediate deportation difficult
In no time, the executive and politicians were called to the scene – and rushed to the scene. “We immediately informed the district administration and demanded an evacuation,” Deputy Mayor Dietmar Ruf explained to the “Krone”. “It is true that the incident falls under administrative criminal law,” he explains. And even though these are strictly protected animals, you cannot take immediate action here.
Animal rights activists are said to have been threatened
Especially since there were hundreds of people, including many children: they did not always cooperate with the politicians and law enforcement officers present who tried to explain to them the situation of the protected colony – sometimes with mobile phone translation. “We have at least succeeded in getting the majority of people to move on,” Ruf explains. When animal rights activists tried to take pictures of the license plates, they were reportedly even chased by their owners and told to delete the photos from their mobile phones.
“Tierschutz Austria” is in great excitement
The same reasons may have prompted the district administration to initially not set a deadline for a withdrawal until Monday.
The legal expert from the organization “Tierschutz Austria” rushed to Zieselwiese and excitedly reported by telephone that her hands were tied as long as neither the district administration nor the higher authorities took further action.
On Sunday afternoon, 17 teams were still parked in the meadow. “We didn’t have any chance here,” Ruf reports. “They insisted they wanted to camp there for a week.” On Monday, the deputy mayor wants to send another written request to the BH to vacate the site.
Some have left, others refuse to leave
Madeleine Petrovic, president of the organization ‘Tierschutz Austria’ no longer understands the world given the ‘passivity of the authorities’: ‘The police must take environmental legislation and species protection, which are enshrined in the constitution, as seriously as disruptions to the traffic rules. “Disturbing the environment of the animals is written down there and has criminal consequences,” says the chairman of Animal Welfare Austria indignantly.
But she and dozens of animal rights activists are fighting against wind turbines: “We have already filed a report. But neither the Federal Ministry of the Interior, nor the district police commander or the district captain have responded to our demands.”
Source: Krone
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