Stranded whale: demonstration for whale rescue – police intervene | EUROtoday

At a Demonstration According to the Schwerin Ministry of the Environment, a number of members entered a restricted space for the stranded whale in a bay on the Baltic Sea island of Poel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Police pushed the ten individuals again, a ministry spokesman mentioned.

Around the bay the place the dying animal lies within the shallow water, the police the entry to the water is blocked off. According to the spokesman, round 50 demonstrators had gathered at one in every of these factors within the night.

In addition, two low-loader vehicles that had been parked in a car parking zone close to the restricted space needed to go away the island beneath police escort, a spokesman mentioned. The animal safety group that introduced the vehicles and the dredger to the island criticized the police’s actions as disproportionate.

The spokesman reported that folks had tried to get to the whale a number of instances up to now few days. Most not too long ago, a girl in a wetsuit jumped into the water from an island ferry.

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