The Transparency Commissioner has informed the Franz Weber Foundation about a "new requirement" for the Yaiza City Council to comply with the Canary Islands Transparency Law and send the petitioner several data on the case of the baby camel mistreated last summer in the Timanfaya National Park.
The organization makes a new request to the local government after its first warning "has fallen on deaf ears and neither the transparency department nor the NGO received any documentation regarding the event", they highlighted from the Foundation.
In June 2023 and after the dissemination of a video on social networks where a "supposed worker treated a baby camel in a completely inappropriate manner", the council announced the opening of a sanctioning file. "Almost a year later there is no knowledge of it and that is why the Franz Weber Foundation first requested this information from the City Council and after not obtaining a response appealed to the Deputy of the Common", they recalled.
Thus, the Ombudsman of the Canary Islands considered that "the matter should be processed through the Transparency Commissioner". On January 31, 2024, he sent a first request to Yaiza, with a deadline for data delivery of fifteen business days and this Thursday, April 11, a new requirement.
In addition, the High Commissioner has already warned with "possible administrative sanctions" and has required the municipal government "to indicate the competent body for the resolution of requests for access to public information and the person responsible for the competent unit of this public information".
The viral video generated an "important social rejection", where tens of thousands of people showed their "outrage" on social networks creating a bad image of Lanzarote. From FFW a "reconversion of the sector with the support of public administrations" was proposed, a measure that had already been launched in 2021 after the publication of a "forceful veterinary report" on the living and "working" conditions of these animals on the Island and within a National Park.
