The Criminal Section of the Court of First Instance will hold next March 12 the oral trial against D.A.M.M., a resident of Tinajo, accused of four animal abuse offenses.
Ademal Lanzarote will act as private prosecution, under the representation of lawyer Eloi Sarrió, director of the firm specialized in animal law Aboganimal.
The association for animal defense of Lanzarote accuses this citizen of committing a crime for each of the four animals found allegedly in "extreme malnutrition and serious pathologies". Meanwhile, the Prosecutor's Office accuses D.A.M.M. of a single crime. Faced with this, Ademal maintains that each animal is "an independent victim".
In this regard, requests 18 months of prison and three years of disqualification for the keeping of animals.
The events to be judged date back to May 8, 2024, when agents of the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard inspected a plot in Tinajo. In that inspection, they found four dogs, three podencas and one pointer, in an "extremely serious" sanitary condition, according to the association.
Thus, the animals were seized by the authorities and placed at the disposal of the Tinajo City Council, after their ownership was ceded by the investigated party.
Several pathologies detected
Ademal has reported that in the judicial process health reports are incorporated, where their "extreme thinness, infected wounds and multiple long-term injuries" would be recorded, so they needed urgent veterinary attention.
Among the pathologies, the association has indicated that they suffer from "cachexia, severe anemia, generalized pyoderma, dermatitis, pododermatitis, infected wounds, loss of dental pieces and tumors, among other affections."