Olis Alpaca Geronimo has been removed from Gloucestershire Just a few days before the expiration of the arrest warrant that ordered the destruction of the animal.
On Tuesday morning, uniformed police officers wearing masks and a group of people in blue overalls and goggles arrived at the farm in Wakewall.
Webcam footage showed Geronimo trying to escape by running into the field with other alpacas. But several officials followed the animal, tied it with a rope, and took it away.
this High court It has been ruled that Geronimo must be destroyed after testing positive for TB twice.
The destruction order is valid until September 4th. But Ms. MacDonald hopes that the government will allow Geronimo to undergo a third test, or keep him alive to help research the disease.
A camera that broadcasts the live broadcast of the Geronimo pen is set up so that supporters can watch the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Ministry of Agriculture) The officer arrives.
The footage on Tuesday showed that several policemen led him out of the fence.
Supporters who have been camping on the farm seem to be trying to prevent the animal from being removed.
Ms. Macdonald said earlier this month: “I have not heard anything from Defra, the ministers have not heard anything, and the chief veterinary officer has not heard anything.”
“The support from all over the world and everything that everyone did made me hope that Defra could see this, and said that they don’t have any data on camelids that have been activated multiple times, and then I stopped to take a good look at this.
Geronimo and his owner Helen Macdonald
/ Amplifier lineMs. Macdonald is a veterinary nurse and she appreciates the help provided by people who come to her farm from all over the UK.
“We have been doing it for four years, and it’s great to have such support,” she said.
“Now there is a movement here where people are angry, sad and outraged about wrongdoing.
“It only grows by the hour. There are more and more petitions, and the response is getting bigger and bigger.
“This is huge, and very, very popular, because we are not dealing with whether Geronimo has tuberculosis, but the fact that they deliberately abused the test to suspect the disease and killed him four years ago.
