The deputy mayor of Zitsas resigns after the abuse of the donkey

THE Municipality of Zitsa announced that the deputy mayor is removed from his duties until the Justice decides on the abuse of the donkey.

The Municipality’s announcement in detail:

Respecting the independence of the judiciary, we were patient and waited for the prescribed procedures to be followed.

We did not comment or make any statement, because we are the last to show disrespect to the country’s institutions.

Proving our words in practice, from today we suspend the Deputy Mayor of Cleanliness and Recycling from his duties until the justice is decided so that it is not considered by anyone that this position of responsibility will be used by anyone.

In a Municipality, such as ours is a livestock and poultry breeder, we consider unacceptable and reprehensible behavior towards any animal. Whoever tried to invest politically by replacing the institutions, we leave him to the judgment of the citizens.

Earlier the Minister of Interior Makis Voridis he asked to carry out the necessary procedures for the immediate suspension of the Deputy Mayor.

The Minister of the Interior Makis Voridis, on the occasion of the incident of torture that occurred on August 27 in the Municipality of Zitsa and taking into account that the arrested person who allegedly committed the act is the Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Zitsa, asked the Coordinator of the Decentralized Administration of Epirus – Western Macedonia to examine the incident and immediately initiate the relevant disciplinary procedure.

At the same time, the Minister had contact with the Mayor of Zitsa, Michalis Pliakos, from whom he asked to initiate the necessary procedures for the immediate suspension of his Deputy Mayor.

Mr. Voridis points out that it is not possible to tolerate such phenomena in modern Greek society, especially when the alleged perpetrators are elected officials, reiterating that there should be no tolerance for animal abuse and torture.

It is recalled that Mr. Voridis, as Minister of Rural Development and Food, had legislated the conversion of the abuse and torture of animals from a misdemeanor to a felony with a provision that was voted for by all the parties of the Parliament, without exception.

The deputy mayor of Zitsa is free with restrictive conditions for torturing the donkey

The deputy mayor of Zitsa was released with restrictive conditions after his apology for the case of the brutal abuse of the donkey.

The conditions imposed on him are to appear at the police station of his area on the 1st and 15th of every month and a ban on leaving the country

Speaking to SKAI in the morning, his lawyer deputy mayor, Dimitris Dimosgave a different version of the case.

He claimed the animal had been injured after being attacked by a wolfthe defendant put it on the cart to transport it and give it first aid, but for some unknown reason the donkey’s foot fell on the asphalt and he did not notice it immediately.

“My principal’s position is that this animal was attacked by a wolf. He was injured in his sternum, he put it in the carriage of his car to go and give him first aid. On the way, unknown for what reason (…) and without apparently realizing it, the animal’s foot fell on the asphalt, the hair inside the cart holding the rest. It crawled for how many meters it crawled and then when it fell the whole animal was noticed by the alleged perpetrator and if you see the car it is stopped at 10 meters”. said Mr. Dimitris Dimos.

He also said that internet platforms have been flooded with blackmailing and threatening messages against the deputy mayor and that, as in other cases, “he is being tried and sentenced in the desert”.

He also mentioned that the 63-year-old deputy mayor could not have woken up one day and said “let’s drag a donkey through the village for everyone to see” and that no one investigated the accident version.

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