The public prosecutor's office is investigating a farmer from Upper Austria who is said to have deliberately cut down several animals in his meadow.
Because he six young deer with mower It is said that he was mutilated and sometimes killed. Public Prosecutor's Office in Linz Against a farmer from the Orvar Raum area.
The 57-year-old reportedly ignored warnings from local hunters who alerted him to the antelope and offered to locate it using a drone. “The Crown Newspaper” (Sunday edition).
In response to a request from the APA, the Linz Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed that an investigation had been opened. The charge is animal cruelty Present in the room.
The farmer and Local politician He is said to have mowed a meadow he rented in early June, despite local hunters warning him of antelopes that might be hiding in the tall grass.
Offered help with drones.
“We have two drones that we use to search farmers’ meadows for antelope for free,” one of the hunters involved explained. This was also offered to the 57-year-old, but he “rudely told him it was none of our business,” the hunter said.
On June 9 and 10, hunters found the remains of two dead bucks, aged between two and three weeks, in the meadow. Two others were so badly injured that they were immediately shot. The next day, two dead fawns were discovered in a nearby compost heap. One hunter summed it up to the newspaper: “Four bucks were dead. Two of them were alive, they had no legs and they screamed so pitifully that we had to shoot them.”
Will the charges be lifted?
Criminal charges for animal cruelty were immediately filed. In response to the APA investigation, the Linz public prosecutor confirmed on Sunday that he had received the final report from the police and had begun an investigation. This could be completed as early as the end of July. The proceedings will then be discontinued or a lawsuit will be filed.
If convicted, animal cruelty can result in a prison sentence of up to two years.
