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Sweden: Police find illegal halal slaughtering at pizzeria
« on: January 19, 2016, 01:39:48 pm »
Sweden: Police find illegal halal slaughtering at pizzeria
 
Sweden: Police find illegal halal slaughtering at pizzeria
Police was tipped off about suspicious halal slaughtering taking place in a shed at a pizzeria.

In a shed belonging to a pizzeria in Falkenberg Municipality, police found two halal slaughtered sheep suspected of having bled to death without anesthesia, SVT reports.

A witness took pictures when two men in their 30s arrived with two sheep at a pizzeria in Falkenberg Municipality.

There the sheep were parked outside for one hour before the men pulled them into a shed and closed the doors.

The witness called the police. A patrol arrived at the scene and then found the sheep with cut throats inside the shed. Blood had flowed out over the concrete floor and a bloody knife lay on the windowsill.

The two Muslim men, based in Halmstad, are charged with cruelty to animals. They are suspected of having slaughtered sheep without anesthesia and let them bleed to death. The sheep have been exposed to suffering "for no good reason," says the prosecutor in the Varberg District Court.

Before the slaughter, the men also transported the animals in an open trailer and drove at high speed on the highway. The sheep were restrained with straps. Once at the pizzeria, the trailer was detach from the car and then tipped over so that the sheep fell out. This whole transport operation is also criminal and in violation of the Animal Welfare Act, according to the prosecutor.

Bluffing

The men deny that they slaughtered the animals. They say they bought the sheep already slaughtered in Halmstad and that the slaughter took place by a professional butcher. However, they refused to say the name of the butcher during the police interrogation. They claim that the sheep were already dead when they were transported. The photos police have obtained however, show that they are bluffing.

Threats

The witness who took photos and called the police has received threats like: "You bastard, wait and see."

Additional charges have been added for this.

The accused men are not registered as owners of the pizzeria by the Swedish Companies Registration Office.

A verdict in the case is still to come.

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.2410/sweden-police-find-illegal-halal-slaughtering-at-pizzeria.html
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