The Junta de Andalucía has sanctioned with a effective of two,001 euros, the minimal established by the Andalusian Animal Protection Law for infractions thought of very critical, to the brotherhood that used disguised pigeons in Alcalá la Real (Jaén), throughout the framework of the occasions held on February 2 on the event of the Candelaria competition.
As reported by the National Association for the Protection and Welfare of Animals (Anpba), which filed the grievance earlier than the Andalusian Government Delegation, the brotherhood proceeded to voluntarily pay the penalty and the effective was legally diminished by 40 p.c, in utility of article 85 of the 2015 Law of Administrative Procedure, in order that the ultimate sanction, on the time of its cost, has remained at 1,200 euros.
Anpba has underlined in a press release that regardless of the numerous social criticisms that might have been generated by this use of pigeons on the Candelaria competition, the actual fact is that “solely the formal administrative grievance turned a necessary process to acquire a ample authorized assure for the results of the truth that meat and bone animals (pigeons) had been now not used”.
Likewise, Anpba has highlighted that, after figuring out the opening of the disciplinary file, it was the mayor of Alcalá la Real himself, Marino Aguilera, who acknowledged on his public Facebook wall that “with the regulation in hand, they may now not be capable of be used pigeons in Candelaria”, whereas he was assured that alternate options may be discovered to maintain alive the custom of disguised pigeons in Candelaria.
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