A wolf from Lower Saxony tore Ursula von der Leyen’s pony “Dolly”. Now the EU Commission President thinks that the strict European wolf protection needs to be reviewed. The CDU politician should keep her paws off the wolf and rather try to protect her horses, says Andreas Beerlage.
He came to Burgdorf-Beinhorn in the early hours of September 2nd. When he trotted off Dannen after the work was done – killing a pony and gnawing on it a bit – nothing was the same as before. The male of a wolf pack northeast of Hanover had messed with the wrong people.
The owner of the 30-year-old pony Dolly was not a small amateur shepherd without a lobby. Also not an insignificant cattle breeder from Peine. But the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “The whole family is terribly devastated by the news,” said her rep.