Romania
organized crime & stray dog business
INTRODUCTION:
Corruption is part of daily life in Romania, with almost half of Romanians admitting to paying bribes. Now the EC is putting increasing pressure on the Romanian government to end bribery.
It's almost become compulsory. "They no longer mention it, you know what's expected." Some officials struggle against the rampant corruption but it often results in their dismissal. It's an ongoing battle between the politicians exploiting corruption and those fighting it. But following a push from Europe a number of high profile politicians have been charged, to the delight of Romanians. "People want to see convictions."
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The Romanian stray dogs
The street dogs of Romania are hated, poisoned, beaten, stabbed, shot, run over by cars, burned, and dumped in pits to starve to death. Some who are killed have their ears cut off by people who are able to turn them in for “rewards”. Hundreds of thousands of innocent dogs condemned to death every year, their only crime is being born.
Animal advocates say the pointless deaths will never cease, as long as Romanian authorities fail to address the cause of the stray problem, and fight only the effects. Dog owners have little responsibility for their pets. Many are not compelled to identify, register, or spay and neuter them.
Romanian dog population grows into millions
The stray problem in Romania began in the late 1980s. Before the communist regime of Dictator Nicolai Ceausescu, most Romanians worked on farms with their companion animals. But Ceausescu’s policies changed agricultural Romania into an urban society complete with overcrowding and food shortages.
When communism took hold, many rural families were forced to work in urban areas and weren't allowed to take their pets with them into the apartments where they lived. Thousands of dogs were left to fend for themselves in the countryside. Since Ceausescu's execution in 1989, the dog population has grown into the millions.
Animal advocates say the pointless deaths will never cease, as long as Romanian authorities fail to address the cause of the stray problem, and fight only the effects. Dog owners have little responsibility for their pets. Many are not compelled to identify, register, or spay and neuter them.
Romanian dog population grows into millions
The stray problem in Romania began in the late 1980s. Before the communist regime of Dictator Nicolai Ceausescu, most Romanians worked on farms with their companion animals. But Ceausescu’s policies changed agricultural Romania into an urban society complete with overcrowding and food shortages.
When communism took hold, many rural families were forced to work in urban areas and weren't allowed to take their pets with them into the apartments where they lived. Thousands of dogs were left to fend for themselves in the countryside. Since Ceausescu's execution in 1989, the dog population has grown into the millions.
Stray dogs killed en masse
A law has been in place to formally prohibit the killing of strays since 2008. But the law only prevented large scale killings, such as those seen when strays were killed en masse in the streets. In 2001 the then-mayor of Bucharest launched a campaign that led to the extermination of at least 100,000 stray dogs in the capital alone.
However, a few years later the streets were again littered with live and dead dogs. It was impossible to drive from the Hungarian border to Romania without seeing scores of stray dogs foraging for food and without seeing several dead bodies on the road, according to SOS Dogs.
The World Health Organization’s “Guidelines for Dog Population Management” (Geneva 1990) and various other academic studies show that killing dogs is ineffective. Despite mass extermination campaigns by misguided municipalities the street dog population grows.
Advocates blame media for hysteria
Without a formal sterilization plan, the number of dogs has increased exponentially. Animal advocates say the atmosphere of hysteria and intolerance was crafted by the media to undermine sterilization programs.
There has been a harsh campaign against stray dogs in the Romanian media. Newspapers and television are flooded with images of dangerous packs of stray dogs roaming the streets with evil intent.
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A law has been in place to formally prohibit the killing of strays since 2008. But the law only prevented large scale killings, such as those seen when strays were killed en masse in the streets. In 2001 the then-mayor of Bucharest launched a campaign that led to the extermination of at least 100,000 stray dogs in the capital alone.
However, a few years later the streets were again littered with live and dead dogs. It was impossible to drive from the Hungarian border to Romania without seeing scores of stray dogs foraging for food and without seeing several dead bodies on the road, according to SOS Dogs.
The World Health Organization’s “Guidelines for Dog Population Management” (Geneva 1990) and various other academic studies show that killing dogs is ineffective. Despite mass extermination campaigns by misguided municipalities the street dog population grows.
Advocates blame media for hysteria
Without a formal sterilization plan, the number of dogs has increased exponentially. Animal advocates say the atmosphere of hysteria and intolerance was crafted by the media to undermine sterilization programs.
There has been a harsh campaign against stray dogs in the Romanian media. Newspapers and television are flooded with images of dangerous packs of stray dogs roaming the streets with evil intent.
read the entire article
The stray dog business in Romania
by Codrut Feher, FNPA
Between 2001 and 2011 the Romanian animal control people have killed hundreds of thousands dogs by spending tens of millions of EUROs in public funds, while the number of stray dogs only grew larger.
For example, in Brasov, although there were only 4,000 stray dogs in 2001, the dog catchers managed to “kill” about 20,000 in 8 years. The only noticeable result of the “final solution” was the emergence of a classic mechanism of siphoning off public money, put in place by the local authorities and animal protection services in Bucharest and many other cites and towns (Brasov, Arad, Constanta, Timisoara, Ramnicu Valcea, Braila, etc.), authorities that came to realize that the mere existence of the that strays is a very profitable business for the following reasons:
Budgets
Under the pretext of the “stray’s terror” generous budgets were allocated. The Bucharest dog catchers spent about 13 million EURO in 7 years. The dog catchers in Brasov spent about 2 million EURO in 8 years. Overall it is estimated that Romania spent between 25 and 40 million EURO on strays from 2001 until 2008.
The flexibility of the budgets
Contrary to the popular belief that fuels the anti-stray protests, the money spent on food for the strays was just a infinitesimal part of the budget, as the dogs were being fed “subliminal” quantities, to quote the so called specialists from DSVA Brasov. Out of a total budget of 1,500,000 lei for 2008, the dog catchers in Brasov allocated only 5,000 lei for the dog food, less than 3%. Instead enormous gas quotas were approved. In Brasov, 4 rundown old cars with easy to tamper with mileage tracking systems were each allocated about 350-400 l of gas per month, which means each car did about 100 km/day. Land was rented for the municipality shelters, despite that fact that local authorities had land they could build on. In Brasov, the municipality paid in 8 years more than 1,500 EURO/month (170,000 EURO in total) to the owners of a former swine farm that was in really bad condition and it also invested in modernizing the farm. All of this while it could have built a brand new shelter with 15,000 EURO on a land it owned.
About 100,000 lei were annually spent on tranquilizers and lethal substances, but nobody ever checked that against the number of dogs reported caught and/or euthanized. These substances were bought illegally (without prescriptions), used illegally (because the dog catchers got lazy and started to catch all dogs with tranquilizers, committing two felonies and one?) and may have even been used or sold as drugs (Vetased, the most used tranquilizer contains ketamine, which is used as a drug and is legally considered drug since 2010).
In Brasov, the chief dog-catcher even got to buy his own jeep, a Mitubischi L200, for about 30,000 EURO, under the pretext of helping large animals, such as cows, pigs, bears, rhinoceros or giraffes that might have wondered into the public roundabouts build by mayor Scripcaru. Rumor has it that the jeep is used in certain weekends by two local authorities in their hunting trips.
For example, in Brasov, although there were only 4,000 stray dogs in 2001, the dog catchers managed to “kill” about 20,000 in 8 years. The only noticeable result of the “final solution” was the emergence of a classic mechanism of siphoning off public money, put in place by the local authorities and animal protection services in Bucharest and many other cites and towns (Brasov, Arad, Constanta, Timisoara, Ramnicu Valcea, Braila, etc.), authorities that came to realize that the mere existence of the that strays is a very profitable business for the following reasons:
Budgets
Under the pretext of the “stray’s terror” generous budgets were allocated. The Bucharest dog catchers spent about 13 million EURO in 7 years. The dog catchers in Brasov spent about 2 million EURO in 8 years. Overall it is estimated that Romania spent between 25 and 40 million EURO on strays from 2001 until 2008.
The flexibility of the budgets
Contrary to the popular belief that fuels the anti-stray protests, the money spent on food for the strays was just a infinitesimal part of the budget, as the dogs were being fed “subliminal” quantities, to quote the so called specialists from DSVA Brasov. Out of a total budget of 1,500,000 lei for 2008, the dog catchers in Brasov allocated only 5,000 lei for the dog food, less than 3%. Instead enormous gas quotas were approved. In Brasov, 4 rundown old cars with easy to tamper with mileage tracking systems were each allocated about 350-400 l of gas per month, which means each car did about 100 km/day. Land was rented for the municipality shelters, despite that fact that local authorities had land they could build on. In Brasov, the municipality paid in 8 years more than 1,500 EURO/month (170,000 EURO in total) to the owners of a former swine farm that was in really bad condition and it also invested in modernizing the farm. All of this while it could have built a brand new shelter with 15,000 EURO on a land it owned.
About 100,000 lei were annually spent on tranquilizers and lethal substances, but nobody ever checked that against the number of dogs reported caught and/or euthanized. These substances were bought illegally (without prescriptions), used illegally (because the dog catchers got lazy and started to catch all dogs with tranquilizers, committing two felonies and one?) and may have even been used or sold as drugs (Vetased, the most used tranquilizer contains ketamine, which is used as a drug and is legally considered drug since 2010).
In Brasov, the chief dog-catcher even got to buy his own jeep, a Mitubischi L200, for about 30,000 EURO, under the pretext of helping large animals, such as cows, pigs, bears, rhinoceros or giraffes that might have wondered into the public roundabouts build by mayor Scripcaru. Rumor has it that the jeep is used in certain weekends by two local authorities in their hunting trips.
The business of gathering dogs
Several mayors with business “abilities” transformed the local animal control departments into businesses that made money by catching and killing dogs from small towns that didn’t have their own shelters or by catching the dogs in a town without shelter and “hosting” the dogs in a different city, tens of km away. The corrupt mayors became so addicted to these profits that they imposed quotas on their dog catchers: the Brasov dog catchers hunted in 4-5 counties, bringing over 120,000 lei to Brasov’s budget. Most of the dogs were exterminated in the Stupini shelter and a small number were handed over to other cities that had shelters.
The whole operation was made profitable at the price of torturing the animals and breaking the Romanian animal protection laws. After loading up the dogs and before heading for Brasov, the Brasov dog catchers would be paid per number of dogs for capture, transportation, sheltering and euthanasia.
Since they were already paid and everyone saw them leaving with the dogs, nothing (certainly not their conscience) stopped the dog catchers from releasing most of the dogs on their way back to Brasov, to make sure that the problem continues and they are called back to “help”. Any animal lover would be happy to hear that, if they didn’t know that the dogs would be caught again and again, sometimes injured in the process, and would most likely continue to multiply.
The counting of the dogs
The audit of the activity of the dog catchers was a chimera. Nobody was really counting the dogs. Nobody knew how many dogs actually went through their hands, from capturing through incineration, especially since the documents for Protan (the incineration company) were filled out by the dog catchers themselves who approximated the weight of the bodies, filling in numbers with a lot of digits and even decimal points, and tried to make it match the number of dogs they claimed to have caught. It was very easy for them to claim for example they caught 5,000 dogs while in reality they caught half of that number. The dogs that (fictionally) entered the center were also supposed to (fictionally) leave the shelter. On June 25, 2009, according to the official documents, between 131 and 154 dogs were killed in Brasov. A witness and several documents point to the fact that only 90 animals were killed and that those dogs were from Victoria, Fagaras and a few other towns. In November 4, 2009, the Brasov dog catchers captured 46 dogs in Covasna. People from Covasna were told that the dogs were in the Brasov shelter and people from Brasov were told they were in the Covasna shelter, but the dogs were not found in either shelter.
On June 1st 2010 the Brasov dog catchers caught 48 dogs in Sangeorgiu de Mures and transported them to the Reghin shelter. The Reghin shelter received and registered only 25 dogs.
Another way to make money was to manipulate the adoption numbers, especially the adoptions towards private shelters: adopted dogs were also counted as euthanatized. In 2008 at least 400 dogs were adopted from the Brasov dog catchers by the “Millions of friends” rescue association. In the official documents that number is 0!
Finally, another way was to modify the number of deceased dogs, by recording a smaller number than the real one and accordingly increase the number of euthanized dogs. For 2008, the shelter mortality as it resulted from official records was of 79 dogs, meaning a dog died every 4 days. In the first months of 2009, the mortality was of only 23 dogs, meaning a dog did every 8 days. In reality, the number of dogs that died in the shelter is much higher: at least 300-400 in 2008 and at least 150 in 2009. And there were also the dead dogs that were found in the city and which had to be, of course, euthanized.
Through all of these manipulations the animal control folks were gaining about 25-30 lei per dog, by either selling the substances for euthanasia or by writing fictional invoices, in complicity with folks from the veterinary supply deposits.
The whole operation was made profitable at the price of torturing the animals and breaking the Romanian animal protection laws. After loading up the dogs and before heading for Brasov, the Brasov dog catchers would be paid per number of dogs for capture, transportation, sheltering and euthanasia.
Since they were already paid and everyone saw them leaving with the dogs, nothing (certainly not their conscience) stopped the dog catchers from releasing most of the dogs on their way back to Brasov, to make sure that the problem continues and they are called back to “help”. Any animal lover would be happy to hear that, if they didn’t know that the dogs would be caught again and again, sometimes injured in the process, and would most likely continue to multiply.
The counting of the dogs
The audit of the activity of the dog catchers was a chimera. Nobody was really counting the dogs. Nobody knew how many dogs actually went through their hands, from capturing through incineration, especially since the documents for Protan (the incineration company) were filled out by the dog catchers themselves who approximated the weight of the bodies, filling in numbers with a lot of digits and even decimal points, and tried to make it match the number of dogs they claimed to have caught. It was very easy for them to claim for example they caught 5,000 dogs while in reality they caught half of that number. The dogs that (fictionally) entered the center were also supposed to (fictionally) leave the shelter. On June 25, 2009, according to the official documents, between 131 and 154 dogs were killed in Brasov. A witness and several documents point to the fact that only 90 animals were killed and that those dogs were from Victoria, Fagaras and a few other towns. In November 4, 2009, the Brasov dog catchers captured 46 dogs in Covasna. People from Covasna were told that the dogs were in the Brasov shelter and people from Brasov were told they were in the Covasna shelter, but the dogs were not found in either shelter.
On June 1st 2010 the Brasov dog catchers caught 48 dogs in Sangeorgiu de Mures and transported them to the Reghin shelter. The Reghin shelter received and registered only 25 dogs.
Another way to make money was to manipulate the adoption numbers, especially the adoptions towards private shelters: adopted dogs were also counted as euthanatized. In 2008 at least 400 dogs were adopted from the Brasov dog catchers by the “Millions of friends” rescue association. In the official documents that number is 0!
Finally, another way was to modify the number of deceased dogs, by recording a smaller number than the real one and accordingly increase the number of euthanized dogs. For 2008, the shelter mortality as it resulted from official records was of 79 dogs, meaning a dog died every 4 days. In the first months of 2009, the mortality was of only 23 dogs, meaning a dog did every 8 days. In reality, the number of dogs that died in the shelter is much higher: at least 300-400 in 2008 and at least 150 in 2009. And there were also the dead dogs that were found in the city and which had to be, of course, euthanized.
Through all of these manipulations the animal control folks were gaining about 25-30 lei per dog, by either selling the substances for euthanasia or by writing fictional invoices, in complicity with folks from the veterinary supply deposits.
PROTAN and how to incinerate public money
The incineration of a 20 kg dog costs 10 EURO (0.5 EURO/kg). Since most shelters don’t have weight scales and Protan reception documents specify that the quantity column should be filled out by the customer, the weight was eyeballed by the animal control folks. If you fictionally kill between 40 and 60 animals, you also need to approximate their weight and fictionally incinerate about 1,000kg, which brings Protan about $500 EURO.
If you extrapolate this schema to a whole year between 10,000 and 15,000 EURO were embezzled in Brasov only.
It was obvious that this whole embezzlement mechanism was accompanied by a long term strategy to keep the animals on the streets. When they were out hunting in other cities the dog catchers were catching everything they could get their hands on, especially dogs with owners or protectors and dogs that were sterilized and returned to their territory according to HG 955/2004. There were cases where dogs were taken while walking next to their owners or where the dog catchers went into people’s yards and took their dogs. A lot of the owners tried to negotiate a return fee smaller than the official one and eventually, especially in Bucharest, a “protection fee” paid to the dog catchers became the norm.
Although the problem of the aggressive dogs was supposedly the number one priority, the animal control folks rarely caught aggressive dogs. Instead they almost always took puppies and little, friendly dogs that were easy and safe to catch. This approach had the double benefit of keeping the dangerous dogs on the streets in order to perpetuate the “terror of the strays” while making the dog catchers appear as heroes and saviors in the eyes of the people.
If you extrapolate this schema to a whole year between 10,000 and 15,000 EURO were embezzled in Brasov only.
It was obvious that this whole embezzlement mechanism was accompanied by a long term strategy to keep the animals on the streets. When they were out hunting in other cities the dog catchers were catching everything they could get their hands on, especially dogs with owners or protectors and dogs that were sterilized and returned to their territory according to HG 955/2004. There were cases where dogs were taken while walking next to their owners or where the dog catchers went into people’s yards and took their dogs. A lot of the owners tried to negotiate a return fee smaller than the official one and eventually, especially in Bucharest, a “protection fee” paid to the dog catchers became the norm.
Although the problem of the aggressive dogs was supposedly the number one priority, the animal control folks rarely caught aggressive dogs. Instead they almost always took puppies and little, friendly dogs that were easy and safe to catch. This approach had the double benefit of keeping the dangerous dogs on the streets in order to perpetuate the “terror of the strays” while making the dog catchers appear as heroes and saviors in the eyes of the people.
Quarrels... in the "dog catcher's paradise"
At the end of December 2007 the Deputies Chamber voted a modification of the Animal Protection Law ( 205/2004 ) also known as "Marinescu's Law". Among other things, this law classifies animal cruelty as a crime punishable by law and prohibits the euthanasia of healthy cats or dogs. It seemed as if common sense and logic had won over the hundreds of mayors and dogcatchers (who during 8 years managed to "bury" aprox. 35 million euros in a mountain of stray corps). Also, during the same time, in December 2007, the Senate modified the law concerning the strays and replaced euthanasia with spay/neuter and returning to territory, according to the WHO's guidelines.
AND NOW COMES THE "PROBLEM"....These two new legislative measures would have solved the strays problem, leaving all of those who made big money from the "stray business" without their huge profits!!!
The conspiracy
All the dogcatchers and their "official sponsors" quickly realized that if the new legislative proposals (PL912) will be presented to the ADP in spring 2008, the new law will become definitive, as approved by the Senate. Their only chance was to postpone and prolong this indefinitely. This would have given the dogcatchers plenty of time to still operate as before, the solution wouldn't have been applied and it would present later on as the perfect excuse to suggest euthanasia of all strays as the number of strays would have grown even more. Their evil plan worked, as the new legislative proposal (PL912) still has yet to be presented to ADP since 2008!
ANSVA , DSVSA and other public institutions
Although euthanasia had been abolished, majority of public administrations across country continued the mass killing of strays, using the most absurd justifications: suddenly, all strays became terminally ill (backed up by false documents produced by corrupt state employees) or using "personal interpretation " of the law. All this was going on with the silent approval of the official services for animal protection, just as corrupt as the public administrations: ANSVSA and DSVSA.
Thousands of strays were captured, the "lucky"ones being detained sometimes for a couple of weeks before their death in the official "shelters": filthy, cold, very small cages, lying in their own feces, deprived of food and water, beaten and abused daily and then finally killed by untrained or uneducated dogcatchers, in the most cruel ways possible, suffering the most unimaginable pain till the last breath...
Anybody that get the chance to see some of their official evidence of these atrocities would be appalled by the gruesome mistakes used to justify what they did.
As many of these dogcatchers are paid by the local authorities, their only "enemy" are the NGO's. Therefore, they are doing their best to keep the NGO's as far away as possible, refusing any collaboration or cooperation with them.
The almighty dogcatcher and his dark amendments...
About a year later, once a few people started complaining about their dirty business, the almighty dogcatchers across the country started to be concerned and thus considered it's the perfect time to start changing the law according to their interest.
The "chosen" one to formulate the new proposal of law was no other than Barbulescu Flavius (famous for killing 30.000 dogs in 8 years and having at least 6 legal complaints against him), supported by Simona Panaitescu. Both of then had the "blessing" of Brasov's mayor, George Cripcaru, also known as "Dracula of dogs", prominent member of PDL (Democratic-Liberal Party) and a man used to manipulate the laws according to his best interests.
Barbulescu's new law proposal included mass euthanasia of strays, banning the NGO's any involvement in the dogcatchers or municipal shelters activity, obstructing adoptions by implementing severe fines for people feeding or taking care of strays on the streets
The evil plan
Once Barbulescu's "masterpiece" was finished, they needed someone to make it public. And who better than Bucharest's prefect, Mihai Atanasoaiei, well known for his embarrassing public speeches and appearances. After that, the game moved on to Elena Udrea and Sulfina Barbu.
Zanfir Iorgus (PDL): "The best solution is spay/neuter...or Euthanasia...or better yet let the mayors decide!"
Sulfina Barbu:" I suggest that it should be mandatory by law that local administrations and NGO'S became partners.." .....that was all she had to say after all NGO's representatives explained and documented 453,17 arguments against the reintroduction of mass euthanasia of strays. They have showed her in ever way possible why mass killing of dogs is inefficient, inhumane, absurd, very expensive and not cost-effective compared to the alternative, against WHO's guidelines: they also showed her how during the last 7 years the officials did nothing to solve this problem the right way, how they delayed everything, didn't pass the law, abused the power they had, continued the killings and misused the taxpayers money.....
Manipulation
Their biggest weapon is the manipulation of the population through mass-media. Their "servant" PRO TV always "deliver" twisting the facts and lying out in the open without remorse, just as long as they can blame something on the strays (e.g. the case of a woman attacked by dogs in a private yard, because she entered the premises at night, without any authorization, presented to the public as a woman killed by strays. The same type of story happened again, a drunk woman was attacked by dogs who had owners, and they also blamed the strays for her death. Even after the official reports from the investigations were released, PRO TV never rectified their stories, apologized, on the contrary, everyday they try to find more things that they can blame the strays for...
And PRO TV is not the only one. There are other tv stations and newspapers in the same boat.
AND NOW COMES THE "PROBLEM"....These two new legislative measures would have solved the strays problem, leaving all of those who made big money from the "stray business" without their huge profits!!!
The conspiracy
All the dogcatchers and their "official sponsors" quickly realized that if the new legislative proposals (PL912) will be presented to the ADP in spring 2008, the new law will become definitive, as approved by the Senate. Their only chance was to postpone and prolong this indefinitely. This would have given the dogcatchers plenty of time to still operate as before, the solution wouldn't have been applied and it would present later on as the perfect excuse to suggest euthanasia of all strays as the number of strays would have grown even more. Their evil plan worked, as the new legislative proposal (PL912) still has yet to be presented to ADP since 2008!
ANSVA , DSVSA and other public institutions
Although euthanasia had been abolished, majority of public administrations across country continued the mass killing of strays, using the most absurd justifications: suddenly, all strays became terminally ill (backed up by false documents produced by corrupt state employees) or using "personal interpretation " of the law. All this was going on with the silent approval of the official services for animal protection, just as corrupt as the public administrations: ANSVSA and DSVSA.
Thousands of strays were captured, the "lucky"ones being detained sometimes for a couple of weeks before their death in the official "shelters": filthy, cold, very small cages, lying in their own feces, deprived of food and water, beaten and abused daily and then finally killed by untrained or uneducated dogcatchers, in the most cruel ways possible, suffering the most unimaginable pain till the last breath...
Anybody that get the chance to see some of their official evidence of these atrocities would be appalled by the gruesome mistakes used to justify what they did.
As many of these dogcatchers are paid by the local authorities, their only "enemy" are the NGO's. Therefore, they are doing their best to keep the NGO's as far away as possible, refusing any collaboration or cooperation with them.
The almighty dogcatcher and his dark amendments...
About a year later, once a few people started complaining about their dirty business, the almighty dogcatchers across the country started to be concerned and thus considered it's the perfect time to start changing the law according to their interest.
The "chosen" one to formulate the new proposal of law was no other than Barbulescu Flavius (famous for killing 30.000 dogs in 8 years and having at least 6 legal complaints against him), supported by Simona Panaitescu. Both of then had the "blessing" of Brasov's mayor, George Cripcaru, also known as "Dracula of dogs", prominent member of PDL (Democratic-Liberal Party) and a man used to manipulate the laws according to his best interests.
Barbulescu's new law proposal included mass euthanasia of strays, banning the NGO's any involvement in the dogcatchers or municipal shelters activity, obstructing adoptions by implementing severe fines for people feeding or taking care of strays on the streets
The evil plan
Once Barbulescu's "masterpiece" was finished, they needed someone to make it public. And who better than Bucharest's prefect, Mihai Atanasoaiei, well known for his embarrassing public speeches and appearances. After that, the game moved on to Elena Udrea and Sulfina Barbu.
Zanfir Iorgus (PDL): "The best solution is spay/neuter...or Euthanasia...or better yet let the mayors decide!"
Sulfina Barbu:" I suggest that it should be mandatory by law that local administrations and NGO'S became partners.." .....that was all she had to say after all NGO's representatives explained and documented 453,17 arguments against the reintroduction of mass euthanasia of strays. They have showed her in ever way possible why mass killing of dogs is inefficient, inhumane, absurd, very expensive and not cost-effective compared to the alternative, against WHO's guidelines: they also showed her how during the last 7 years the officials did nothing to solve this problem the right way, how they delayed everything, didn't pass the law, abused the power they had, continued the killings and misused the taxpayers money.....
Manipulation
Their biggest weapon is the manipulation of the population through mass-media. Their "servant" PRO TV always "deliver" twisting the facts and lying out in the open without remorse, just as long as they can blame something on the strays (e.g. the case of a woman attacked by dogs in a private yard, because she entered the premises at night, without any authorization, presented to the public as a woman killed by strays. The same type of story happened again, a drunk woman was attacked by dogs who had owners, and they also blamed the strays for her death. Even after the official reports from the investigations were released, PRO TV never rectified their stories, apologized, on the contrary, everyday they try to find more things that they can blame the strays for...
And PRO TV is not the only one. There are other tv stations and newspapers in the same boat.
Elena Udrea
She is one of the biggest supporters of euthanasia of all strays, as a future candidate for the Mayor of Bucharest. She encourages the passing of the anti strays law, claiming that this is the "American model", but failing to realize the HUGE differences between the two countries when it comes to animal welfare.
SUMMARY / RECAPITULATION
2007: The Senate votes PL 912/2007 that replaces the mass killing of strays with spay/neuter/release
2008: Animal Protection Law prohibits mass euthanasia.
ADP from Deputies Chamber blocks the discussion of this law for 3 YEARS!
Meanwhile, local authorities continue the killing and totally ignore the solution: spay/neuter/release. They are officially breaking the law and try to cover for all who do that also.
In Brasov, a German organization offered to spay/neuter all the city's strays but were completely ignored by local authorities.
The only town were the mayor actually used spay/neuter/release programs was Oradea, and the results are showing: in 6 years the population of strays decreased 8 times.
So after 3 long years of blocking PL912 from being approved, the politicians want now to "solve" the stray problem by mass killing!
Knowing very well that euthanasia is not a solution, they all want that as it is a guarantee for more dirty money to be made in the future from "the stray business". Spay/neuter/return programs would only jeopardize their source of dirty profits!
On the 1st of March 2011, Sulfina Barbu sneaked in Atanasoaiei's new proposals of law (modifying PL912) which granted the mayors the liberty to decide on euthanasia or not. Animal lovers were protesting outside the Parliament's Building unnoticed...
On the 7th of March 2011, when ADP tried to vote the "new and improved "PL912 with Atanasoaiei's proposals, a miracle happened: the deputies decided to return the law to the Commission to allow the NGO' s and Animal Welfare groups to be consultants and the law to be re-discussed after 3 weeks.
This delay "caught by surprised" a lot of mayors too, who already counted on the mass euthanasia to be approved and were "ready" to take action, having everything ready do to "the job". And strangely enough, during these 3 weeks more and more cases of strays shot, poisoned, beaten to death, burned, abused and tortured appear every day, all over the country.
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SUMMARY / RECAPITULATION
2007: The Senate votes PL 912/2007 that replaces the mass killing of strays with spay/neuter/release
2008: Animal Protection Law prohibits mass euthanasia.
ADP from Deputies Chamber blocks the discussion of this law for 3 YEARS!
Meanwhile, local authorities continue the killing and totally ignore the solution: spay/neuter/release. They are officially breaking the law and try to cover for all who do that also.
In Brasov, a German organization offered to spay/neuter all the city's strays but were completely ignored by local authorities.
The only town were the mayor actually used spay/neuter/release programs was Oradea, and the results are showing: in 6 years the population of strays decreased 8 times.
So after 3 long years of blocking PL912 from being approved, the politicians want now to "solve" the stray problem by mass killing!
Knowing very well that euthanasia is not a solution, they all want that as it is a guarantee for more dirty money to be made in the future from "the stray business". Spay/neuter/return programs would only jeopardize their source of dirty profits!
On the 1st of March 2011, Sulfina Barbu sneaked in Atanasoaiei's new proposals of law (modifying PL912) which granted the mayors the liberty to decide on euthanasia or not. Animal lovers were protesting outside the Parliament's Building unnoticed...
On the 7th of March 2011, when ADP tried to vote the "new and improved "PL912 with Atanasoaiei's proposals, a miracle happened: the deputies decided to return the law to the Commission to allow the NGO' s and Animal Welfare groups to be consultants and the law to be re-discussed after 3 weeks.
This delay "caught by surprised" a lot of mayors too, who already counted on the mass euthanasia to be approved and were "ready" to take action, having everything ready do to "the job". And strangely enough, during these 3 weeks more and more cases of strays shot, poisoned, beaten to death, burned, abused and tortured appear every day, all over the country.
Please spread the word! ...EVERYONE NEEDS TO FIND OUT ABOUT THIS THING!
Thank you!
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In this video, Princess Maja from Hohenzollern when she said:
“I often heard this argument: In Romania we euthanize dogs because we are poor.
Do you kill dogs to eat them, or for their fur? No, you are not that poor.
You are poor only in education and empathy... and on the right politicians.
That's the poorness that Romania has!”
“I often heard this argument: In Romania we euthanize dogs because we are poor.
Do you kill dogs to eat them, or for their fur? No, you are not that poor.
You are poor only in education and empathy... and on the right politicians.
That's the poorness that Romania has!”
Veterinariann Dr Aurelian Stefann talks about his work with stray dogs in Romania and how important it is to sterilize the dogs.
Botosani ~ the massacre of 230 healthy dogs
On May 11, 2011, the vet Cristian Petru Pencu, assisted by his drunken helpers,
"managed" to kill 230 healthy dogs in 2 hours time
This was the first news circulating on Facebook the day after the massacre:
230 dogs were massacred last night in Botosani (Romania) at the order of the mayor
Yesterday night over 200 dogs from Botosani (ROMANIA) public shelter were killed at the order of the mayor who based his overnight decision on the fact that an epidemic of Carre disease will start – because of the fact that some of the dogs in the shelter were sick.
The dogs were discovered this morning by the volunteers that feed them every day – in plastic bags with traces of blood everywhere.
The dogs were not euthanatized by injection but slaughtered.
They called the TV stations and the police but nothing happened. They were in shock and tried to get out of the shelter the last few puppies that were alive. They were assaulted and offended by the guards.
Public shelters in Romania don’t have a quarantine zone and only the NGOs feed the dogs and offer medical services. The dogs are kept in improper conditions because the final goal is for them to die.
Euthanize is ILLEGAL in Romania but, because of political pressure, the local authorities euthanize dogs and try to hide it. Please share this story on FB so that everyone sees how the ROMANIAN authorities break the law AGAIN and commit illegalities without being punished. Even if we are part of the UE community ROMANIAN justice does not punish this people.
We need European support to put pressure on this people for them to stop killing!
230 dogs were massacred last night in Botosani (Romania) at the order of the mayor
Yesterday night over 200 dogs from Botosani (ROMANIA) public shelter were killed at the order of the mayor who based his overnight decision on the fact that an epidemic of Carre disease will start – because of the fact that some of the dogs in the shelter were sick.
The dogs were discovered this morning by the volunteers that feed them every day – in plastic bags with traces of blood everywhere.
The dogs were not euthanatized by injection but slaughtered.
They called the TV stations and the police but nothing happened. They were in shock and tried to get out of the shelter the last few puppies that were alive. They were assaulted and offended by the guards.
Public shelters in Romania don’t have a quarantine zone and only the NGOs feed the dogs and offer medical services. The dogs are kept in improper conditions because the final goal is for them to die.
Euthanize is ILLEGAL in Romania but, because of political pressure, the local authorities euthanize dogs and try to hide it. Please share this story on FB so that everyone sees how the ROMANIAN authorities break the law AGAIN and commit illegalities without being punished. Even if we are part of the UE community ROMANIAN justice does not punish this people.
We need European support to put pressure on this people for them to stop killing!
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News reports
Botosani: veterinarian who killed 240 dogs, "I did what needed to be done!"
Botosani: vet that killed 240 dogs is accused of intentional murder; another 15 people are surveyed. The police doubts that he managed to make lethal injections to 240 dogs in two hours. "For an injection is needed ten minutes. The doctor therefore need 2400 minutes ..."
Shocking images. Hundreds of dogs killed in Botosani and put in plastic bags (including video)
Botosani: Prosecutors' Office in Botosani started criminal investigations on the shelter dogs case
Botosani: the massacre of the 240 dogs in the German news
Flashmob for the murdered dogs at the BOTOSANI shelter on 12th of May
Botosani: Police filed a complaint against animal veterinarian involved in the massacre of Botosani
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/botosani/Botosani-_Medicul_veterinar_care_a_ucis_240_de_catei-audiat_la_politie_0_478752702.html
No surprise: health survey carried out on the carnage at BOTOSANI. Laboratory analysis confirmed distemper, said Health Department Chief Veterinary and Food Safety (DSVSA).
The few dogs that survived the massacre from BOTOSANI last Wednesday will likely be euthanized, Head of Health Department - Veterinary and Food Safety (DSVSA) said today, 16/05/2011
BOTOSANI: a pilot experiment? - Certain political forces hope to pass through parliament the law allows the killing of shelter animals and want to see how society would react after application of the "final solution," writes dcnews.ro.
Botosani: vet that killed 240 dogs is accused of intentional murder; another 15 people are surveyed. The police doubts that he managed to make lethal injections to 240 dogs in two hours. "For an injection is needed ten minutes. The doctor therefore need 2400 minutes ..."
Shocking images. Hundreds of dogs killed in Botosani and put in plastic bags (including video)
Botosani: Prosecutors' Office in Botosani started criminal investigations on the shelter dogs case
Botosani: the massacre of the 240 dogs in the German news
Flashmob for the murdered dogs at the BOTOSANI shelter on 12th of May
Botosani: Police filed a complaint against animal veterinarian involved in the massacre of Botosani
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/botosani/Botosani-_Medicul_veterinar_care_a_ucis_240_de_catei-audiat_la_politie_0_478752702.html
No surprise: health survey carried out on the carnage at BOTOSANI. Laboratory analysis confirmed distemper, said Health Department Chief Veterinary and Food Safety (DSVSA).
The few dogs that survived the massacre from BOTOSANI last Wednesday will likely be euthanized, Head of Health Department - Veterinary and Food Safety (DSVSA) said today, 16/05/2011
BOTOSANI: a pilot experiment? - Certain political forces hope to pass through parliament the law allows the killing of shelter animals and want to see how society would react after application of the "final solution," writes dcnews.ro.
Please read also:
The mayor of Botosani wants to send all stray dogs to Constanta, on a dubious 'pilot project'
Romania, host of the "2012 Euro Dog Show"
Hypocrisy at its finest!
The international community was outraged with the news of Romania being the host of the "2012 Euro Dog Show". Romania, the country that kills innocent strays in the cruelest manner imaginable. There was simply no logic to this.
A selection of comments made by shocked people from around the world is published here.
As a result of the international outrage about the Euro Dog Show 2012, to be held in Romania, the Romanian Kennel Club has issued a statement on 14th of June, 2011 (their site is bilingual)
A selection of comments made by shocked people from around the world is published here.
As a result of the international outrage about the Euro Dog Show 2012, to be held in Romania, the Romanian Kennel Club has issued a statement on 14th of June, 2011 (their site is bilingual)
For more information about Romania,
please see also the following pages:
Oradea-dog-shelter, once Romania's privately funded pilot project par excellence,
has become a living hell for the animals since the municipality has taken it over
The mayor of Botosani wants to send all stray dogs to Constanta, on a dubious 'pilot project'
Timisoara - the municipality pays huge sums of money to Danyflor to care for the stray dogs, but they do not even receive a drop of water. So where does the money go?
Romania ~ 09/2011 M. Marinescu about PLx 912/2007, its criminal distortion and the stray dog business
Romania ~ Miracle in Romanian Parliament happened on June 7th, 2011
Romania ~ the secret vote and our letter to the Belgian State Secretary for EU Affairs
Romania ~ pictures and videos for letter conc. the secret vote
Romania ~ the manipulation of the population to support the legalization of the massacre of strays
Romania accuses the strays for the poverty in Romania. Are the dogs guilty or the PDL?
Romania becomes officially "the Land of Death" at date of 22/11/2011 when they voted for the mass killing
Romania ~ the decision of the Constitutional Court on 11/01/2012 and the reaction of some mayors
Romania ~ Barbulescu Flavius from Brasov
Romania ~ wild horses in the Danube Delta
Romania ~ the dogs in the Botosani city pound have not been fed since two weeks
Romania ~ Corruption in Tulcea
Romania ~ Horror in the Municipal Shelter of Barlad
Romania ~ Horror in the Municipal Shelter of Bistrita
Romania ~ The hell in the city pound in Radauti
