Ja, ja, topic mag best een schopje, want het is weer eens zover...
http://www.nu.nl/buitenla(...)-doodt-fransman.htmlOntsnapte olifant doodt Fransman
Een ontsnapte circusolifant heeft een 84-jarige Fransman gedood. 9 september 2013De man was jeu de boules aan het spelen in het dorpje Lizy-sur-Ourcq toen hij ineens oog in oog stond met het dier, meldt de lokale krant La Marne maandag.
De olifant gaf de gepensioneerde man volgens ooggetuigen een klap met zijn slurf en vertrapte het slachtoffer vervolgens. Medische hulp mocht niet baten; de man overleed in de nacht van zondag op maandag in het ziekenhuis.
De broer van de 84-jarige heeft direct een klacht ingediend tegen het circus.
Vermoedelijk wist de olifant te ontsnappen door een zeil te leggen over het schrikdraad dat het dier had moeten tegenhouden. Dit is het originele bericht, ja, jammer voor die Fransoos, zal best
maar je kan moeilijk
de olifant verwijten dat hij aan het gruwelijke leven in het circus wilde ontsnappen.
http://adoptpets.tumblr.c(...)ivity-elephant-fleesDriven mad by a life in captivity, elephant flees in bid for freedom at Paris circus and crushes 84-year-old boules player to death . 84-year-old man was playing petanque when the elephant charged at him
. Animal hit him with its trunk then trampled on the innocent pensioner
. Elephant canvas to cover electric fence before charging through it
. Petanque player was the first person the elephant came across
A two tonne escaped circus elephant called Tanya has killed a French petanque player with her trunk, police said today.
The horrific attack took place in the Paris commuter village of Lizy-sur-Ourcq, where Tanya was performing to sell-out audiences including young children.
She had finished her afternoon show on Sunday when workers reported her appearing ‘angry and upset’.
Tanya grabbed a tarpaulin with her trunk and used it to cover up the electric fence surrounding her enclosure. She then stormed out into the town after smashing through two barriers, including one formed by a ring of circus trailers.
‘Tanya attacked the first person she came across, who was an 84-year-old man playing petanque in the village square with his friends,’ said an investigating source.
She slammed him to the ground with her trunk in a manner which left him with terrible injuries.
She then trampled on him.’
Local police confirmed that the victim, who has not yet been named, died of his injuries in hospital in nearby Kremlin-Bicetre.
Animal rights protestors immediately accused Cirque d’Europe – the managers of the show at which Tanya was appearing – of cruelty.
Tanya, who was originally called Samba, was trained to lie on the ground under the big top, as crowds including hundreds of children screamed and shouted.Muriel Arnal, of rights group One Voice, said: ‘We were told that when Samba refused to perform one day, she was hit repeatedly by her trainer who only stopped because the children were in tears.
‘I think Samba wanted to escape and the man was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.’
One Voice filed a criminal lawsuit against Cirque d’Europe, which denied mistreating the elephant.
No charges were brought and the case was dropped, with Cirque d’Europe simply changing Samba’s name to Tanya, so as to distance her from the litigation.
An NGO had tried to get her out of the circus in 2003 due to evidence of violence. Consequently the circus changed its name from “Continental Circus” to “International Circus Europe” and gave her the new name of Tanya. This name changing is common to get away from a bad past.
‘Ever since then we have gone to see Samba every two months,’ said Mrs Arnal. ‘She is on her own in the circus, she spends her nights is a small lorry trailer and she performs a number that is contrary to her nature.
‘We have always said that her place is not in this circus and that she could become dangerous.
Any animal can become dangerous if it is mistreated.’
The elephant was captured in Kenya in the 1980s when she was just one, and then transported to France.
Cirque d’Europe, which also features tigers and baboons, has admitted in the past that Tanya has been known to charge people, and even to throw stones with her trunk.
An examining magistrate will now decide Tanya’s fate, and there is a possibility she could be put down. Tonight she was back in her circus trailer. dus die gaan ze afmaken The deceased pensioner’s brother has now pledged to take legal action against the circus for not guarding her properly.
There have been a number of fatal incidents involving rogue circus elephants over the past decade.
In 2007 a female elephant killed her handler at Moscow Zoo, following a similar accident in the same place in 2001.
The supervisor of the Vienna Zoo elephant house was also attacked and mortally wounded by a young bull elephant called Abu in 2005.
adoptpets: It’s very sad what happened to this innocent man. But it’s not the elephant’s fault. It is the circuses fault for keeping an animal who belongs in the wild as their captive slave and abusing her so she can perform tricks. I hope the family of the man sues the circus for every last penny they have. Do not punish the elephant who is just fleeing from her captors and abusers. Please send her to a sanctuary where she can be social with other elephants and do normal elephant stuff.