An NGO of animal protection lawyers will sue those responsible for a sailboat that rammed a whale in the Beagle Channelwas reported this Sunday.
The “Association of Officials and Lawyers for the Rights of Animals” (Afada) reported on the “irresponsible” attitude of the sailors of a sailboat that rammed a whale on the shores of the Beagle Channel, which “was released this week through a video.”
Afada’s lawyers communicated that they will file “the criminal complaint against those responsible for these events” and all persons who can provide truthful information about this event were also requested, communicating it to the “corresponding legal authorities or to this Association”.
According to Afada, the “unprecedented” event occurred in “April or May” last, and was broadcast in the video where “the irresponsible attitude of the sailors of a sailboat was observed, which, after colliding violently with one of the cetaceans of the Argentine Sea, they simply laughed and moved away from the place“.
According to Afada, Ushuaia “doesn’t get out of its astonishment” after images of the event “taken with a cell phone” by a person who “was traveling in a rubber boat in the direction of the whales, which were swimming very close to the city,” were broadcast.
The images recorded “how the sailboat dangerously approaches the group of whales (at full speed) and irresponsibly rams them, after which laughter is heard and, quickly, the sailboat turns in the opposite direction and moves away,” adds the NGO.
According to Afada, after the publication of the video on social networks “it began to circulate” that the boat that participated in the event would be an “Inismara Sailboat”.
“It is important to file a complaint in the event that the whale may appear stranded or, through the scientific institutions that monitor cetaceans in the area, and the damage suffered by the animal can be detected and proven,” he added. the notice.
“We need them to send all possible information, such as the details of the sailboat, witnesses who photographed or recorded the event, as well as any other relevant data to carry out the corresponding legal actions,” concludes Afada.
