Agents of the Seprona of the Civil Guard have closed a clandestine slaughterhouse located on a farm in El Molar (Madrid), from where meat from ducks, donkeys, chickens, goats and pigs was sold to Asian premises throughout Spain without any type of sanitary control, in a totally illegal activity.
During the operation, the agents recorded a total of 650 specimens of the aforementioned species living in unsanitary conditions, many of them with signs of different diseases, malnutrition and lack of hygiene. When a case of salmonella entericait was decreed sacrifice of all animals.
They have stopped at the farm itself six people of asian origin, five men and one woman, also owners of a butcher shop in the town of El Molar, where they sold the meat they prepared in the slaughterhouse. In addition, Seprona has confirmed that they distributed the genre in provinces throughout the country, with points of sale in Aranjuez and Fuenlabrada (Madrid), Lebrija (Seville), Lucena (Córdoba), Fuente del Fresno (Ciudad Real), Manises and Alfafar. (Valencia), Lugones (Asturias), Liencres (Cantabria) and Basauri (Vizcaya).
In addition to the terrible conditions in which the animals were raised, and the lack of control of the slaughter and cutting process, the detainees burned the remains on the same plot and proceeded to transport the meat without respecting the cold chain, in passenger cars or vans. One of the usual destination points was a polygon in Fuenlabrada, from where it was distributed to Asian restaurants, or kept in refrigerators to be sent through delivery services. Messenger service.
Seprona has been able to locate this illegal slaughterhouse by increasing controls and surveillance operations as a result of the bird flu crisis Featured since the end of last year in Europe. It was in February when the first case was detected in the area, in Guadalix de la Sierra, and the work focused on stopping the spread of the disease.
To the six detainees, who are charged with a crime against public health and animal abuse, is added the investigation of 12 more people for crimes of fraud, against the market and consumers and against public health. In the closure of the slaughterhouse they have also intervened 350 kilos of meat that were prepared for distribution.
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