7000 people gathered today in Rome at the protest march "Hands off the sanctuaries" to demand specific protocols for the animals of the shelters, following the violence and the killing of the 9 pigs of the Cuori liberi shelter in Sairano (Pavia), which took place on September 20th.
Demonstrators from all Italian regions - explain the environmentalists in a note - marched in front of the Colosseum to Piazza di Porta San Giovanni to ask the Minister of Health for a guarantee that what happened will never happen again.
"We will continue to fight: we will go all the way to the President of the Republic and even to Brussels, if necessary, until our demands are heard." The ministry will present the demands of animal rights activists in Brussels on Monday.
On Monday, the protest continues with a demonstration in front of the ministry and a flash mob not to forget the violence carried out by the police and ASL in Sairano. In the square, the street artist Moby Dick hache also dedicates a work to the massacre of the pigs of Sairano.
"Specific protocols for shrines are urgently needed," said Sara d'Angelo, spokesperson for the Shrines Network that promoted the event. "In addition to formal recognition, we demand facts and laws that protect us and our animals. There has been a partial openness on the part of the ministry that will present our requests to Brussels on Monday - he added - but we need guarantees immediately: we are asking for an order from the Extraordinary Commissioner for Swine Fever or a note from the Minister that prevents what happened in Sairano from happening again. We will continue to fight: we will go all the way to the President of the Republic and even to Brussels, if necessary, until our demands are heard."
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