Madrid/An Artemis court has issued sentences of seven and eight years in jail for two people accused of theft and illegal sacrifice of major cattle. The trial was held on September 26, although it had not been released by local television until this weekend.
According to the report, “it was shown that the defendants, with the purpose of illegitimately increasing their personal assets by selling flesh of cattle illegally sacrificed themselves in the vicinity of the road of the Carranza farm, municipality of Mariel, province of Artemisa, and took over an animal of breed vaccine of alien belonging and without being authorized they killed him.”
In addition to the deprivation of liberty, both will have to pay a fine – of un specified amount – for civil liability. They were also confiscated by the articles used in the crime commission – which were not detailed – and may not, of course, leave the country.
In addition to the deprivation of liberty, both will have to pay a fine – of un specified amount – for civil liability. They were also seized the articles used in the crime commission
The information states that the defendants were taken into account when imposing the penalty “social behavior, its characteristics and the lesivity of their actions”, but the high of the penalties is not the only element that invites you to think that there was an exemplary will in the trial, but the expressed indication in the social networks of the Artemiseña televisionwhich titled with that word the video of the cause.
“Why don’t they say that the lawyer asked the sector head a question and never answered it because he had no answer to the relevant questions? The smell tests were not done with the appropriate procedure and have no value according to the codes of the State’s law. Everything was a farce mounted by the head of sector. He follows the injustice when condemning Julio César, 26 years old,” a user has written in networks. “How can they publish this and not the questions asked to the police? Because those journalists were in the trial and do not put it,” he continued.
The cases of theft and sacrifice of major cattle are a headache for the Cuban authorities, in a context of scarcity of beef that lasts already too many years. In recent times, in addition, with the increase in crisis and emerging from crimes, countless robberies of this type have been known, before which farmers declare themselves impotent because, among other things, they lack such elementary things for the protection of animals as wire to fence, in addition to personnel to guard them.
The severe sentences exceed one of the most popular cases of this year, when last April it was sentenced to three years in prison a man who stole two horses In San Antonio del Sur, in Guantanamo.
The severe sentences exceed one of the most popular cases of this year, when last April a man who stole two horses in San Antonio del Sur was sentenced to three years in prison
In February, after ten months of inspections and surveillance, the Ministry of Agriculture revealed that in the country there are 2,914,009 cows, an alarming figure and that gives the measure of the livestock debacle in a country that had six million heads in 1958, as many as inhabitants.
In addition to the crimes of theft and sacrifice, there are other illegalities linked to the sector, such as the births that are not declared, the deaths that are traced, the change of sex of the animals to avoid obligations with the State and a endless traps that have consolidated over decades for the demands of authorities that have only led to an absolute crisis of the livestock mass.
