The other two are the Animal Surveillance Brigade, with elements of the capital police, and the Animal Attention Agency (Agatan) of the Ministry of the Environment.
While in the Capital Prosecutor’s Office 2,006 investigation folders for animal abuse from 2018 to 2024 were opened, but of these only 389 were prosecutedthat is, 19.4%.
“Of all government instances, one is not made,” says Norma Huerta, director of the Civil Association Patitas worlddedicated to the rescue of dogs since 2009.
And the authorities?
The abandonment of Apollo It was denounced by neighbors in social networks and in the media, and even reported before the Animal Surveillance Brigade and the Environmental Attorney General’s Office.
None of these two authorities rescued ApolloNor to other battered dogs within the same address in the Mayor’s Office Azcapotzalco. The PAOT simply hit an trade at the door, despite the risk for the life of animals.
Just on September 10, animalist organizations demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Citizen Security to demand the dismissal of the director of the Animal Surveillance Brigade, Mónica Ballesteros Garduño.
The lack of action before the complaint in the case of Apollothe accusation of having disappeared and supplanted the dogs Fursio and PUPPYtolerance to the use of animals in protests by defenders of bullfighting and the absence of operations in public markets where animals are sold, are some of the reasons of the activists to ask for the resignation of Ballesteros.
In the case of Apollo, he was even rescued by two journalists, who were denounced by purple raid. The communicators decided to act when there was no response from the authorities.
Both the Animal Surveillance Brigade and the PAOT are limited to going to the complaint site in cases of abuse to try to get a mediation with the person indicated of abuse or the delivery of the animal.
“The Paot is a shark without teeth that does not have the ability to meet the complaints. At the time of the action the law empowers them just to go to touch and tell the abuser ‘Why don’t the dog or the mistreatment give me, in good wave?’ And the abuser’s decision depends, ”explains the activist of Patitas world.
Only when a complaint is raised before the capital of capital and a public ministry orders a search, the authorities intervene without depending on the will of the person denounced, but in six years only in one in five complaints the Public Ministry obtained the order of a judge to make a criminal imputation against one or more responsible persons.
It is difficult to reach justice, the percentage of complaints that reach a sentence in the area of animal protection is ridiculous. ”
Norma Huerta, director of Mundo Patitas.
