Seon to 15 months in prison to a farmer for missing 170 occasions | Spain

He Supreme Court He has rejected the resource of the farmer that left 170 occasions in 2018 in his farm of Fuente Obejuna (Córdoba) and that had been sentenced to 15 months in prison and three and a half years of disqualification. The entrepreneur was dedicated to the restorence of Ocas For the production of pate, meat and feathers. The sentence remarks that the birds « lacked food contribution » and « drinking water » and that the defendant had « absolute knowledge of the state of malnutrition in which the occasions were ». The convicted person may not resort to this decision.

At the end of June 2018, the veterinary services of the Agrarian Regional Office of the Junta de Andalucía and the Nature protection service of the Civil Guard (Seprona) They found the 170 dead animals on the sentenced farm. The resolution indicates that the majority were « piled up » and « in an advanced state of malnutrition, lacking muscle mass and presenting a generalized chaquéctic state (of extreme thinness) by starvation. » In addition, he points out that this behavior produced « a collective agony that led to the death of animals. » The care of the occasions was a minor task, who « had communicated (to the farmer) the lack of feed and the state of malnutrition » of the birds.

Criminal Court number 2 of Córdoba considered in 2022 that the defendant had committed A continued crime of animal abuse. Therefore, he sentenced it to 15 months in prison, three and a half years of disqualification “for the exercise of the profession, trade or trade that is related to animals” and to take care of the judicial coasts. The Provincial Court of Córdoba dismissed The appeal that the defense of the convicted person filed. Finally, he filed a appeal at the Supreme Court, which has also dismissed the appeal.

The Chamber has considered that the proven facts « are integrable in the concept of continued crime and not in a single crime, as the appellant claims. » The Court, headed by Judge Manuel Marchena, has claimed that « the death of 170 occasions as a result of chained omissions that deprived the animals of indispensable care to avoid thirst, hunger and veterinary care, until the moment of their collective death, must be treated according to the rules of continued crime. » With this, the Supreme ratifies the sentence imposed by the Cordoba court.