Young man sentenced for animal cruelty

31.05.2023 - 16:12

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A 19-year-old driver has been found guilty of deliberately running over a group of geese last spring

The young man has been sentenced for violation of the Animal Cruelty Act, vandalism and violation of the Road Traffic Act. Archive photo from the Court of the Faroe Islands

A 19-year-old man was today handed a one-year driving ban, 40 days of community service and a DKK 11,000 fine.

He was sentenced for deliberately running over a group of geese, killing one of them, on the pavement on Tórshavn’s Sundsvegur road on 14 April last year.

Another 19-year-old man who recorded video footage of the incident with the gees was slapped with a DKK 5,000 fine.

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“The video footage shows some geese walking along a pavement in Tórshavn,” police inspector Heri Andreasen explained shortly after the incident occurred last year.

“The camera then shifts to a car driving toward the geese. It drives up onto the pavement and runs over the geese, killing one of them. It is clear that this was done on purpose.”

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