Video causes a stir: hunter stabs injured deer in pond

Watch the video: Video causes a stir – man stabs helpless deer.

This video causes a stir. A man kills a deer with a knife for no apparent reason.
But what is behind it?
A red deer, pursued by several hunting dogs, saved itself in a garden pond. But that’s where his escape ends. The deer cannot escape the pond and the dogs, it keeps slipping off the smooth pond liner.
A hunter decides he can’t give the animal a redeeming kill shot and goes into the water. He grabs the deer antlers and he stabs the animal with a knife.
After minutes of agony, the deer dies.
The video was made available by the animal welfare organization SOKO Tierschutz.
According to media reports, the incident happened on January 8th in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg. The man in the video is a hunter who put the deer out of its torment.
As the hunter’s lawyer, Heiko Granzin, told the "Märkische Zeitung" states that the red deer was hit on the hind leg during a hunt and then got into the nearby garden pond of a district tenant. However, due to the injury, the animal did not come out again. The hunter who then appears in the video is a recognized bloodhound handler.
The lawyer told RND: “It was the hunter’s legal duty to kill the animal as ‘as quickly as possible’, otherwise he would have violated the Animal Welfare Act. A redeeming shot from the rifle was not possible due to the dense development and onlookers in the area, Granzin said.
SOKO Tierschutz sees the scene critically. The animal rights organization points out that the previous hobby hunt led to the cruel spectacle. It means cruel and senseless suffering for wild animals. The organization demands an immediate end to private amateur hunting.

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