Evil In Devin !

  • by: Glyn Jones
  • recipient: Mr Cvetalin Vasilev Penkov, Mayor of Municipality of Devin in Bulgaria
Obsht. Devin, obl. Smolian

BULGARIA.

By signing the petition, the message that you can read below, will be sent to:
Mr Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria, President of Bulgaria
Mr Marin Raykov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Ms Liliya Ivanova, Secretary General of Bulgaria
Mr Cvetalin Vasilev Penkov, Mayor of Municipality of Devin
Public Prosecutor, Public Prosecutor's Office Smolyan
Ombudsman, Ombudsman Office
British Embassy, British Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria
German Embassy, German Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria
USA Embassy, USA Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria


Bulgaria has very good, modern Animal Welfare Law (APA 2008) that forbids inhumane handling of animals and places strays under special protection. On 14 April 2011, Bulgarian Parliament passed an amendment in the Penal Code, which criminalizes Extreme Cruelty to Animals. That came onto force on 27 July, 2011. So, what is the problem then?

The problem is that Bulgaria has no enforcement body to implement the new law and therefore change cannot take place. Bulgaria has no legitimate Zoo police with powers and Bulgarian police officers do not want to bother to investigate and take animal abusers to justice. Since 27 July 2011 we witnessed a number of extreme animal cruelty cases in Bulgaria and no criminal was caught and punished with jail term, or even with a fine. Our complaints go unnoticed and in some cases we've been told to “shut up or else”.

Bulgarian animals live and die in agony! Criminals never get investigated and punished! In most cases Police laugh it off or simply do not accept their duty to protect animals.

The link between animal abuse and crimes against humans has been well documented over several decades. Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 25 years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty.

Given it is proven that people who can commit crimes against animals rarely stop there and that they are very likely to harm other humans, especially children or other vulnerable people, we are calling upon the Government of Bulgaria to Criminalise and Prosecute ALL Acts of Animal Abuse.


Borko is much loved by his family and he loves them too, so we do not want to take him away from them, yet of course, they also want his safety, and this is the purpose of our appeal - to finally have legal protection for Borko and all the other animals in Bulgaria. This is why we want to gain as much publicity as possible, so that it is picked up by the international media and the Bulgarian Government are embarrassed into finally taking action against animal abusers.

Bulgaria has an excellent animal protection act, yet it is totally unenforced and this is what we want to see change, to stop the mob culture like this, that we keep seeing time and again happen against animal advocates in Bulgaria, who are targeted daily for feeding, helping, rescuing and accommodating strays.

Please help Dr Litov and Borko to grab the international media's attention to embarrass the Bulgarian government into finally enforcing their Animal Protection Act.

Various organisations and people of interest to contact-->

Mr. Cvetalin Vasilev Penkov
Mayor of Devin
Kmet OBSHTINA DEVIN Ul.
Druzhba No 1
DEVIN PK
4800 BULGARIA
Tel: 359 (0)30412174
e-mail: obshtina@devin.bg

Venelin Velizarov Opov
Mayor of Village of Selcha
Kmet Selo Selcha Obshtina Devin Obl.
Smolian PK 4814 BULGARIA
Теl: 00359 (0)30476/223
Mobile: 00359 (0)889536600

Public Prosecutor's Office
Smolian Bul. Bulgaria No 16
Smolian BULGARIA
Email: rprok_smolyan@sm.prb.bg

Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism
8, Slavyanska Str.
Sofia 1000,
Bulgaria
tel: +359 2 940 7001
e-mail: e-docs@mee.government.bg

Mr A. Erler
European Parliament's Intergroup on the Welfare and Conversation of Animals
a.erler@eurogroupforanimals.org

Mrs Erminia Mazzoni
Chair of the Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament
erminia.mazzoni@europarl.europa.eu

President of the Council of Europe
Council of Europe
bureau.paris@coe.int

European Court of Human Rights
(Council of Europe)
Publishing
67075 Strasbourg Cedex
France
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 20 18
Fax: +33 (0)3 88 41 27 30
E-mail: publishing@echr.coe.int

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