HUNTING TOWERS TOPPLED, BURNED AND BLOWN UP

Jan­u­ary 20, 2014 — Ger­many  The fol­low­ing is a sum­ma­ry of recent inci­dents in Ger­many report­ed on the Anti-Hunt­ing Blog (ani­mal rights activists may not be respon­si­ble for all of these inci­dents):

Jan­u­ary 20, 2014 — Ger­many  The fol­low­ing is a sum­ma­ry of recent inci­dents in Ger­many report­ed on the Anti-Hunt­ing Blog (ani­mal rights activists may not be respon­si­ble for all of these inci­dents):

- A hunt­ing seat/tower was destroyed by fire in Het­ten­shausen (Bavaria) on Jan­u­ary 18.

- Accord­ing to news reports, between Jan­u­ary 6–7 a hunt­ing tow­er at the edge of a nature reserve near Salem (Schleswig-Hol­stein) was knocked over. Two oth­er hunt­ing tow­ers in the same area were dam­aged in Novem­ber and Decem­ber. Police blamed “Mil­i­tant hunt­ing oppo­nents.”

- In ear­ly Jan­u­ary, two hunt­ing tow­ers were demol­ished near Hagen (North Rhine-West­phalia). Local police spec­u­lat­ed that ani­mal rights activists were respon­si­ble.

- On Decem­ber 24, a hunt­ing tow­er was set on fire near the city of Hildesheim (Low­er Sax­ony).

- Police are inves­ti­gat­ing an explo­sion that com­plete­ly destroyed a hunt­ing tow­er in Poll­ha­gen (Low­er Sax­ony) in mid-Decem­ber. The exact cause of the blast has not been deter­mined.

- Late on Decem­ber 14 a hunt­ing tow­er was dam­aged by an explo­sion in Samern (Low­er Sax­ony). pho­to: gn-online.de

- On Novem­ber 14, the inside of a hunt­ing tow­er in Dud­er­stadt (Low­er Sax­ony) was soaked with butyric acid, mak­ing it unus­able.