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Activists block the entrance to the Nuremberg Zoo
The planned killing of baboons at the Nuremberg Zoo continues to cause protests. Activists blocked the main entrance to the zoo.
Animal protection activists blocked the entrance to the Nuremberg Zoo on Saturday. The action was directed against a planned killing of the zoo’s baboons. As a police spokeswoman said, 24 activists had sat down in front of the zoo’s main entrance that morning, and five had also chained themselves to a gate with massive iron chains. At the entrance, the activists attached a banner with the inscription “Only freedom is species-appropriate” and shouted slogans such as “You are not alone” over a megaphone.
The Animal Rebellion group acknowledged the action in a statement. Because the needs of animals were not heard in the debate, the organization’s activists gave the creatures a voice, the group said.
Since, according to the police, the demonstrators did not comply with the request to vacate the square, police officers broke up the meeting and carried the activists away. The police cut the iron chains with the help of the fire department. Some of the activists continued to demonstrate in a space assigned to them near the entrance.