Journalists can’t know everything, lawyers can’t either – and so the inquiry at the Würzburg district court (sorry, a lawsuit for “animal crushing”?) is hopefully just as correct as the answer. Yes, explains a judge responsible for information there, he also had to research that first.
Thanks to a trusted search engine, we are now one step further: Accordingly, “animal crushing” is one of the forms of “crush fetish”, a sexual inclination that deviates from the norm and derives its attraction from the fact that objects, food (or other be crushed with bare or shoed foot. A form of foot fetishism.
A woman was on trial in Würzburg on Monday who had to answer for videos showing mice being killed “by means of boots, high heels or ballerinas”. A man who recorded these videos has been accused of complicity, charged as a punishable animal killing under the Animal Welfare Act. According to the court spokesman, the accused was sentenced to a total fine of 180 daily rates at 40 euros for seven such cases, and the accused must pay 90 daily rates at 70 euros.