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09-03-2010, 07:56 AM
Bosnian police find woman who threw puppies into river
Police in Bosnia say they have located a young woman shown in a video throwing puppies into a river.
By Our Foreign Staff
Published: 11:20AM BST 03 Sep 2010
Link to this video (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7974328/Girl-throws-puppies-into-a-river.html)
Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno say they have identified the person seen throwing six newborn puppies into the river one by one.
The disturbing video (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7974328/Girl-throws-puppies-into-a-river.html) provoked worldwide outrage after being posted online earlier this week.
Police say they have located the girl, who is apparently a juvenile, from leads given by animal protection groups in the country.
The girl's parents will soon be questioned, police say. Under recently adopted animal protection law, people can be fined up to 5,000 euro for cruel treatment of animals.
The head of the Sarajevo-based animals group SOS, Velimir Ivanisevic, said his organisation also had information according to which the girl was from Bugojno and the video was made by her brother.
"It is a mirror of society and the fact that young people are doing such things shows how they have been raised," Mr Ivanisevic said.
He warned that only sporadic cases of cruelty against animals get public attention in Bosnia while numerous brutalities go unreported.
Under Bosnian law a person who kills or tortures animals is punishable only with fines ranging from 15 to 5,000 euros.
The 44-second video shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually taking the squealing black-and-white puppies out of a white bucket and tossing them into the fast-moving river one by one.
Police in Bosnia say they have located a young woman shown in a video throwing puppies into a river.
By Our Foreign Staff
Published: 11:20AM BST 03 Sep 2010
Link to this video (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7974328/Girl-throws-puppies-into-a-river.html)
Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno say they have identified the person seen throwing six newborn puppies into the river one by one.
The disturbing video (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7974328/Girl-throws-puppies-into-a-river.html) provoked worldwide outrage after being posted online earlier this week.
Police say they have located the girl, who is apparently a juvenile, from leads given by animal protection groups in the country.
The girl's parents will soon be questioned, police say. Under recently adopted animal protection law, people can be fined up to 5,000 euro for cruel treatment of animals.
The head of the Sarajevo-based animals group SOS, Velimir Ivanisevic, said his organisation also had information according to which the girl was from Bugojno and the video was made by her brother.
"It is a mirror of society and the fact that young people are doing such things shows how they have been raised," Mr Ivanisevic said.
He warned that only sporadic cases of cruelty against animals get public attention in Bosnia while numerous brutalities go unreported.
Under Bosnian law a person who kills or tortures animals is punishable only with fines ranging from 15 to 5,000 euros.
The 44-second video shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually taking the squealing black-and-white puppies out of a white bucket and tossing them into the fast-moving river one by one.