NGO will denounce those responsible for a sailboat that rammed a whale

An NGO of animal protection lawyers will sue those responsible for a sailboat that rammed a whale in the Canal de Beagle.La “Association of Officials and Lawyers for Animal Rights” (Afada) reported on the “irresponsible” attitude of the sailors of a sailboat that rammed a whale on the banks of the Beagle Channel, which “was released this week through a video.” Afada’s lawyers explained that they will file “the criminal complaint against those responsible for these events.” In addition, all people who can provide true information about this event were requested, communicating it to the “corresponding legal authorities or to this Association”. According to Afada, the “unprecedented” event occurred in “April or May” last, and was disseminated in the video where “the irresponsible attitude of the sailors of a sailboat was observed that, after violently colliding with one of the cetaceans of the Argentine Sea, simply laughed and moved away from the place.” According to Afada, Ushuaia “does not leave his amazement” after disseminating images of the event “taken with a cell phone” by a person who “traveled in a rubber in the direction of the whales, which were swimming very close to the city.” The NGO added that the images recorded “how the sailboat approaches dangerously the group of whales (at full speed) and irresponsibly rams them, after which laughter is heard and, quickly, the sailboat turns in the opposite direction and moves away.” According to Afada, after the publication of the video on social networks “it began to circulate” that the boat that participated in the event would be an “Inismara Sailboat.” It is important to make the complaint in the event that the whale may appear stranded or, through the scientific institutions that monitor cetaceans in the area, and the damage suffered by the Animal can be detected and tested,” the statement added. We need them to send all possible information, such as the data of the sailboat, Witnesses who photographed or recorded the event, as well as any other relevant data to carry out the corresponding Legal Actions, “concludes Afada.

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