The well-known hunting lawyer Santiago Ballesteros He left the defenders of the animal law in the Congress of Deputies without arguments this Thursday during an intervention after being invited by the Popular Parliamentary Group to this body.
Ballesteros divided his talk into two aspects: the first referring to the processing of the animal law promoted by the Government and secondly to the modification of the Penal Code in matters of animal abuse. The lawyer showed his «amazement at the urgent processing of two regulations that have generated social alarm». “And two regulations are dispatched in the same way as if they were the same: one of an administrative nature and the other of a criminal nature, something that would deserve autonomous processing. And I do not see to understand the emergency of processing them on the run », he added.
And he began to reel off different sanctions imposed by the animal law that the Government intends to carry out: “The law should be withdrawn and start from a consensus base that contemplates the utilitarian vision of animals,” Ballesteros explained.
He also brought out what the reform of the Penal Code will mean
The lawyer subsequently delved into the modification of the Penal Code, making it clear that there is already a crime that regulates animal abuse. He also cited the five fundamental modifications that the modification proposes, focusing especially on those that include the mistreatment of all vertebrate animals. «As bad as it is to kill a hamster, looks like a make someone go to prison for something like that, “said the lawyer.