Tens of thousands of mink released in Greece

“26.08.2010 — Helio­den­dro, Kas­to­ria (Greece)
One of the biggest greek mink farms has been hit in our first night of action. All the cages impris­on­ing ani­mals in 37 sheds of the farm were opened and machin­ery sab­o­taged.

To let the ani­mals out part of the fence was cut and both gates opened smash­ing the locks (using the farmer’s tools). Two hours and half of work and we could run away along with thou­sands of minks (accord­ing to media 50.000 were released).

27.08.2010 — Kaloneri, Siatista (Greece)
Anoth­er mink farm was our tar­get for a sec­ond night of action, this time near the town of Kaloneri, on a road where 10 farms can be eas­i­ly seen. 8 sheds full of ani­mals had their cages opened in just ten min­utes. Before leav­ing we opened a gate to let the ani­mals run towards free­dom (accord­ing to media 2.000 were released).

In both cas­es we had checked care­ful­ly the farms to know how to orga­nize a faster and more secure action.
With these actions we decid­ed to hit the fur indus­try and espe­cial­ly the dis­gust­ing ‘fur towns’ of Siatista and Kas­to­ria, plagued with hun­dreds of fur stores. Lib­er­at­ing ani­mals from cages is a way to put our ideas into prac­tice. We oppose the oppres­sion, exploita­tion and impris­on­ment that this civ­i­liza­tion has cre­at­ed for any liv­ing being, regard­less of species, race, gen­der or sex­u­al pref­er­ences.

In these des­per­ate days we still strive for free­dom. Eat veg­an on the bar­ri­cades!

A.L.F.”

Greek media has report­ed that as many as 50,000 mink were released from cages. In an arti­cle in the Make­do­nia news­pa­per, the pres­i­dent of a Greek fur breed­ers asso­ci­a­tion said that it was a “black day” for the indus­try. The own­er of one of the tar­get­ed farms esti­mat­ed his loss­es at 1 mil­lion Euros and said that his farm had been ruined.