A court has opened preliminary proceedings following the complaint filed by the animal rights party PACMA and the entity Lex Ánima following the complaint they filed regarding protests by farmers throwing live rabbits at the territorial services of Climate Action in Lleida.
According to ‘Segre’, the case is being heard by the Court of Instruction number 4 of Lleida, which has summoned representatives of the Union of Farmers, JARC, Asaja and the FCAC to testify on March 20, 2024.
Ramon Boleda, from the platform, and Pere Roqué, from Asaja, have assured that they have not received any judicial notification and have regretted that the complainants only want to “make noise” by bringing the facts to justice.
The protest took place on March 3 at the doors of Acció Climátic in Lleida where some farmers threw rabbits as a protest action.
They arrived after collapsing the city with tractors to demand measures to end the rabbit plague that affects many agricultural areas in the Ponent regions. The protest was called by the Pagesos or Conejos platform but was supported by other agricultural organizations.
As a result of the events, the animal rights party PACMA and Lex Ánima denounced animal abuse by farmers and now the justice system has decided to open proceedings and summon those responsible for the agricultural organizations but not for the platform to testify.
This was stated by Ramon Boleda, spokesperson for Pagesos or Conills, who recalled that they are a group of people who came together “and cannot report anything”, so he believes that the case is not going anywhere.
Boleda added that the complainants are based on images that could be manipulated and on “false accusations” and has stressed that they did not kill or injure any rabbits.
Boleda did recognize that they were deposited inside the Department and put in boxes. He also pointed out that environmentalists say they are domestic animals but in reality they are wild and accused them of just wanting to make “propaganda and noise.”
